There's a screened-in porch in the front but not the back   The back's just got a door and a crepe myrtle bush   And a little ole dried up garden and some woods way on the back   There's a hickory nut tree that covers the whole roof      Sounds like hand grenades hittin' the tin roof all the time   There's an old wood floor that's bowed up just about everywhere   It's got a thin coat of white stuff on it even though   It's a dark wood floor      There's a washing machine right outside the back door   It's a ringer washer, the kind they don't make anymore   I got my hand caught in it several times   And usually got my ass whipped for it      Even though I's the one that got hurt   There's a snake stick, that's what they called it anyway   By the back door because if you   Wanted to go outside you'd usually need it      Everything's green most of the time except in winter   When you could see the highway, it's not a leaf on the trees   There's an old rock, well, where we clean the squirrels   I used to sit out by that and watch the Carbor girl come down the road      She didn't have but one dress and that's all she needed   It was kinda red and kinda gray and kinda tore up and kinda perfect   She's built like a brick shit-house   She had polish on her toenails that only went about halfway down      ?Cause they was always tore up   She used to walk across the side yard, right by the well   And go stand by the crepe myrtle bush   And look in the screen door      She'd usually stand there for about ten minutes   And back then I wasn't sure what she wanted   These days I understand, if I'd a known then what I know now   Well, my life might well have been pretty different      Well, she was about eight or nine years older than I was when I first   Started school I knew there was somethin'   There was somethin' about the south and the air was a lot heavier   And it seems like the women sweat even when they're not      I don't know if you've ever heard rain on a tin roof or not   But it's kinda tailor made for love   And day I was in the house and I was lookin' back   Toward the back screen door and there she was      Standin' there for ten minutes   The only thing different on this day is   That my daddy went back there and talked to her   And told her she looked pretty      I thought the same thing but there was somethin' 'bout the look   In his eye was a little different than the one I'd had in mine   And he walked outside and they went past the crepe myrtle bush   And past the well and out into the green      And I walked to the back door and I watched for a long time   And all I could see was trees after a time, I really couldn't see   They came back out and my daddy was walkin' way ahead of her   And she was kinda following, almost runnin'      He acted like he didn't want to have anything to do with her   And I was wondering why, why would you be so happy going in   And so down coming out, I don't know      That's what I thought then   He didn't act like she's so pretty anymore   Now I think I get it   I think I've got it several times