Easy Wind – Bill Callahan

I been balling a shiny black steel jack-hammer
Been chipping up rocks for the great highway
I’ll live five years if I take my time
Balling that jack and drinking my wine
I been chipping them rocks from dawn till doom
While my rider hide my bottle in the other room
Doctor say better stop balling that jack
If I live five years I gonna bust my back, yes I will

Easy wind ‘cross the bayou today
‘Cause there’s a whole lot of women, mama
Out in red on the streets today
And the river keeps a talking
But you never hear a word it says

Gotta find a woman be good to me
Won’t hide my liquor, try to serve me tea
‘Cause I’m a stone jack baller and my heart is true
And I’ll give everything that I got to you, yes I will

Easy wind going ‘cross the bayou today
There’s a whole lot of women, mama
Out in red on the street today
And the river keeps a talking
But you never hear a word it says