Precious Cargo

Put on your long black morning gown

Get on your crazy horse crown

Sat here watching oh a dead man blow

It's cold outside riding the winter snow

And if it comes tomorrow

And if it comes today

I don't see this working out

With the one that got away

The scatter roller's coming down

Summer's been and turned around

It don't seem so long ago

That you were my precious cargo

The scatter roller's coming down

Summer's been and turned around

It don't seem so long ago

That you were my precious cargo

My precious cargo, my precious cargo

The truth is stacked in this deck of cards

A promise lost wrapped in these ivory barbs

Elizabeth sings oh she's my queen of hearts

Souls of men die and actors pick up the parts

If it comes tomorrow

If it comes today

I don't see this working out

With the one that got away

The scatter roller's coming down

Summer's been and turned around

It don't seem so long ago

That you were my precious cargo

The scatter roller's coming down

Summer's been and turned around

It don't seem so long ago

That you will always be my precious cargo

My precious cargo

You'll always be my precious cargo

If it comes tomorrow

If it comes today

I don't see this working out

With the one that got away

The scatter roller's coming down

Oh my booty's back around

It don't seem so long ago

That you were my precious cargo

The scatter roller's coming down

Summer's been and turned around

It don't seem so long ago

That you were my precious cargo

The scatter roller's coming down

Summer's been and gone around

It don't seem so long ago

You were my precious precious cargo