Текст песни: Purgatory Road + перевод

Mama come in from the kitchen

She tells me to fetch my brother

She wipes her hand on her apron

And says, «Don't be late for supper»

I walk out on the front porch

The sun’s about to die

It’s still so hot the old dogs wouldn’t bark

Even if a car’s to drive by

There’s a blue-green Buick and a flat-black Ford jacked up off the ground

Daddy’s sittin' on a stump and he’s lookin' bewildered at the parts lyin' all

around

We ain’t been no where at all since the Fairlane threw a rod

Whatever it is, is bein' damned to hell by my daddy and God

Some are here workin' on a passage to Heaven

And others, they can’t carry that load

A few are left singin' the blues on Purgatory Road

It’s just a mile or so to the edge of town

There ain’t much of one here now since the factories closed down

You got no jobs, you got no people, and you got no businesses

The only thing left is the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses

Mama she took me to church one time, gon' get me baptized

Further on down the road, somethin' I realized

Now you might say it’s contempt prior to investigation

But nobody seems concerned about their savior’s procrastination

Some are here workin' on a passage to Heaven

And others, they can’t carry that load

A few are left singin' the blues on Purgatory Road

Now just past the cemetery with its tumped-over tombstones

There’s a little tavern that’s called the Devil’s Backbone

It’s got your distilled spirits and Tennessee sour mash

And a little sign that says «In God we trust, all others pay cash»

My brother’s sittin' on a chair in front of an old tweed amplifier

He’s playing bottle-neck slide, steel on wire

Now when his mother died and his daddy left, my momma she brought him home

And even though he wasn’t blood, she raised him as her own

So now he sings them blues on an old Gibson 160E

And he don’t even know what color he is 'cause he can’t see

Some are here workin' on a passage to Heaven

And others, they can’t carry that load

A few are left singin' the blues on Purgatory Road

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