The Jacket

It's got a hole in the elbow, bandana pocket

Silver button missin' from the snap at the bottom

I said, "That thing's seen better days, Daddy, you should toss it"

And he just said "Darlin I can't"

This thing is two-thousand bonfires, I hitchhiked to Boulder

It's kept a million raindrops off your mama's shoulders

My heart on my sleeve, my life in these patches

Then he wrapped his arms around me in that old

Jean jacket

It's been a bed for a hound-dog, a picnic blanket

There's blood on the collar from a punk who tried to take it from me

Seen Willie Nelson play four or five states

The best Levi ever made

We strung for miles of barbed wire in Corinth, Mississippi

A night in county jail with an old drunk and a hippy

It's my heart on the sleeve, it's my life in these patches

With his arms wrapped around me in that old

Jean jacket

It ain't much to look at, but he let me have it

So I could feel his arms around me in that old

Jean jacket

Jean jacket