Mary Alice had a baby and he looked just like I did   We got married on a Monday and I been working ever since   Every week down at the Ford Plant but now they say they're shutting down   Goddamned Reagan in the White House and no one there gives a damn       Double Digit unemployment, TVA be shutting soon   While over there in Huntsville, They puttin' people on the moon      So I took to runnin' numbers for this man I used to know   And I sell a few narcotics and I sell a little blow    I ain't getting rich now but I'm gettin' more than by   It's really tough to make a living but a man just got to try      If I died in Colbert County, Would it make the evening news?   They too busy blowin' rockets, Puttin' people on the moon      Mary Alice quit askin' why I do the things I do    I ain't sayin' that she likes it, but what else I'm gonna do?   If I could solve the world's problems I'd probably start with hers and mine   But they can put a man on the moon   And I'm stuck in Muscle Shoals just barely scraping by      Mary Alice got cancer just like everybody here   Seems everyone I know is gettin' cancer every year   And we can't afford no insurance, I been 10 years unemployed   So she didn't get no chemo so our lives was destroyed    And nothin' ever changes, the cemetery gets more full   And now over there in Huntsville, even NASA's shut down too      Another Joker in the White House, said a change was comin' round   But I'm still workin' at The Wal Mart and Mary Alice, in the ground   And all them politicians, they all lyin' sacks of shit   They say better days upon us but I'm sucking left hind tit   And the preacher on the TV says it ain't too late for me   But I bet he drives a Cadillac and I'm broke with some hungry mouths to feed      I wish I'z still an outlaw, was a better way of life   I could clothe and feed my family still have time to love my pretty wife   And if you say I'm being punished. Ain't he got better things to do?   Turnin' mountains into oceans Puttin' people on the moon      Turnin' mountains into oceans Puttin' people on the moon