New Imperial Grand Blues - Josh Tillman

Florance hanging under the willow

Her daddy’s hanging from those beams

Keeping perfect time with the creaking

That girl’s only got 18 wheels

Spent enough time with the living

To know the living don’t spend nothing on me

So leave your wine and soul in a mansion

Oh, meet me in the big red sea

Sister there’s no man you could save

Oh, piece no mush American taint

Bible school can teach you about suffering

Oh, but suffering doesn’t know God’s name

Spent enough time with the living

To know the living don’t spend nothing on me, so

Tell your uncles just where to go

Oh, meet me in the big red sea

Holding your head under the water

Doesn’t make you a white whale

Holding your head high in the riot

Doesn’t make you a man, Jane

Spent enough time with the living

To know the living don’t spend nothing on me, so

Satan put the chairs on the altar

Meet me in the big red sea

You can’t steal this remembrance of me

Oh, meet me in the big red sea