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  • 4/30/2025
John Prine - Austin City Limits
At ACL Live at The Moody Theater, Austin, TX, USA
Jun 5, 2018 / Tour: The Tree of Forgiveness
Transcript
00:00If you like your apple sweet and your streets are not concrete, you'll be in your bed by night every night.
00:19Take your hand-spanked corn-fed gal and your best friend's four-eyed pal to a treat right down the street that's dynamite.
00:30Let your conscience be your guide if you put your foot inside. You wish you left your well enough alone. When you got hell to pay, put the truth on a railway and blame it on that crazy bone.
00:51Crazy bone, crazy bone, crazy bone. Where you wish you left your well enough alone. When you got hell to pay, put the truth on a railway and blame it on that crazy bone.
01:13Don't be stuck up in Alaska when you should be in Nebraska on Thursday when it's egg and daughter's night.
01:24When the farmers come to town and they spread their maids around and they drop their daughter down at the roller rink.
01:35When you got hell to pay, put the truth on a railway and blame it on that crazy bone.
01:42When you got hell to pay, put the truth on your luckies and your daddy's fine tooth comb. If you knew what you were thinking, they'd run you out of thinking.
01:53When you got hell to pay, put the truth on a railway and blame it on that crazy bone.
02:05Then you just left that whisper to your home. I just left that whisper to your home. If they knew what you were thinking, they'd run you out of thinking.
02:15But just blame it on that crazy bone. Here comes that crazy bone.
02:20When your grandkids are outgrown
02:44And they put you in our home
02:46And eternity is approaching fast
02:51Yeah, you're half out of your head
02:55And you're probably the bad
02:57And you can't see a thing to save your posterior
03:02When far across the prairie
03:06In the local cemetery
03:08They already got your name carved out in stone
03:12And when all them nurses say
03:16Grandpa, why you walk that way
03:19Just blame it on that, oh, crazy bone
03:23And everybody in that old folks home
03:28Yeah, blame it on that, oh, crazy bone
03:34Crazy bone
03:36Thank you

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