to you it's another day   to me it's a grim reaping   just another shooting star   strung out on your wire      prick my finger   on his virgin silver   he told me raw   ginger, carmelize me      tombigbee, tombigbee   help me hang these bones,   gotta hang these bones out to dry   he loved me, he loved me, ravishingly loved   gonna hang these bones out to dry      got a blackberry stain   and they're not even in season   if you're not yet a woman   you've got no business playing at this      tombigbee, tombigbee   help me hang these bones,   gotta hang these bones out to dry   he loved me, he loved me, ravishingly loved   gotta hang these bones out to dry      so you get done   then you get some   should have known   it won't hold you for long   then you say fine   this is all mine   but hasn't your donor card expired   from blue ridge to cattail   on the prairie   from fly-over country   back through mississippi   who made you go   but you raise me twenty   i'm raising you five   a hundred treaties   signed by your father's lies   who made you go   cause i'm trailing her tears   the ones you won't hold   you roll me a carpet, boy   roll me a carpet, boy   roll me a carpet   from here to oklahoma      tombigbee, tombigbee   help me hang this bone,   gotta hang this bone out to dry   he loved me, he loved me, ravishingly loved   gonna hang this bone to dry   dry, dry, dry   i'm doin it dry, dry, dry...