Lyrics Drive-By Truckers

Drive-By Truckers

The Fireplace Poker

The Reverend had his wife done in by a guy I knew in

High School

He and a friend should do her in and make it look like

a robbery

"Here's money son, go buy a gun and shoot her in the

head

No one who dies, testifies, make sure that she is dead"

The heathens were paid a thousand bucks to eliminate

someone

Plus they were paid five hundred more to get themselves

a gun

The guy I knew had a hunting knife, "Why bother with a

gun?

She'll still be dead, why sweat details, as long as it

gets done"

The Bible said that Jesus bled for the sins of the rest

of us

The Reverend has his wife done in for fifteen hundred

bucks

They knocked upon the door and said their car broke

down

and asked if they could use the phone for a ride back

into town

They stabbed her several times and left her there for

dead

Bleeding and crying out and gasping for breath

and they went out the very next night and bragged about

it

The Reverend came home from work and found the Mrs.

dying

Life was falling from her grasp but still she lay there

trying

No one will ever know what she told him or know what he

told her

Cause the Reverend did his wife in, fifteen whacks,

fireplace poker

The headlines screamed out "Brutal Murder, small town

preacher's wife"

The crime rocked all of Colbert County as each new fact

came to light

It seems the Preacher had a girl he counseled on the

side

Now the shit was coming down and she was scared to lie

The preacher came home from the funeral and found

Policemen waiting

The heathens, it seems, got coked up and drunk and did

a lot of communicating

Life is cheap for a couple of creeps but this here is

the smoker

Their prints were found all around the room but not on

the fireplace poker

The Preacher's son brought his father home and followed

him inside

Shots rang out in the Tuscumbia night. Was he alone

when he died?

"Don't call the son for questioning, that bullet was

deserved

Better call it suicide, justice has been served"

Better call it suicide, justice has been served