Pig Iron Blues Lyrics

I’m driving spikes into the clay

Out in the mountains of PA

Looking for iron

That mean cast iron

With a shovel in my hand

A red jackhammer from Japan

I’m talking purgatory blacktop

In a bucket from the man

I hear flames! I hear flames

Halleluj, my soul is saved

I’m digging my way out of hell

A dirty pig with iron blues

I piss down at the works

Where I ditch all of my dirt

And pray John Henry strikes me down

And drags my carcass to the sky

I should stow it all away

A Federal drug test on the way

And it’s been 58 days sober wasted

Wave them all goodbye

I hear flames! I hear flames

Halleluj, my soul is saved

I’m digging my way in and out of hell

A pig with iron blues

I hear flames! I hear flames

Halleluj, my soul is saved

I’m just a shotgun-shacked up

Diesel driving pig with iron blues

And when we’ve reached the end

Of this cycle of endless suffering

The very trench that I just made

Will be my final resting place

They’ll throw my body in

And cover it with lime

So a pox upon your head

And all the bullshit that you said

Oh lucky me, I‘ll finally sleep

Now that my brain is fucking dead