Lyric Two girls

by Townes Van Zandt

Well, the clouds didn t look like cotton
they didn t even look like clouds
I was underneath the weather
my friends looked a crowd
The swimmin hole was full of rum
I tried to find out why
All I learned was this my friend
you got to swim before you fly


I got two girls
one s in heaven and one s below
Oh, one I love with all my heart
and one I do not know.


Two lonesome dudes on an ugly horse
Passed by not long ago
They asked me where the action was
I said I did not know
As they disappeared into the brush
I heard the driver say
He s a little slow between the ears
He s always been that way.


Jolly Jane just lays around
and listens with her mouth
she s had about a dozen husbands
but the last one pulled out
Now, who s gonna bring her dinner
through the weary years ahead
all she ll get from me is sympathy
got no time to see she s fed.


It s cold down on the bayou
they say it s in your mind
but the moccasins are treadin ice
and leavin strange designs
Cajuns say the last time
that this happend they weren t here
All Beaumont s full of penguins
and I m a-playin it by ear.