Easy Wind - Bill Callahan

I been balling a shiny black steel jack-hammer

Been chipping up rocks for the great highway

I’ll live five years if I take my time

Balling that jack and drinking my wine

I been chipping them rocks from dawn till doom

While my rider hide my bottle in the other room

Doctor say better stop balling that jack

If I live five years I gonna bust my back, yes I will

Easy wind 'cross the bayou today

'Cause there’s a whole lot of women, mama

Out in red on the streets today

And the river keeps a talking

But you never hear a word it says

Gotta find a woman be good to me

Won’t hide my liquor, try to serve me tea

'Cause I’m a stone jack baller and my heart is true

And I’ll give everything that I got to you, yes I will

Easy wind going 'cross the bayou today

There’s a whole lot of women, mama

Out in red on the street today

And the river keeps a talking

But you never hear a word it says