Oxycontin Blues - Steve Earle

Well, my daddy worked in the coal mine

Til the company shut it down

Then he sat around and drank hisself blind

Til we put him back underground

Now nothing grows on this mountain

And what’s a poor boy to do?

Except to wander these hills, forgotten

With the oxycontin blues

Well I never cared much for whiskey

'Cause it only made daddy mean

Wrapped a little bit tight, they tell me For the methamphetamine

Then my cousin come up from Knoxville

And he taught me a thing or two

Now I’m headed nowhere but downhill

With the oxycontin blues

Got a dollar bill in my pocket

Got a half a tank in my truck

Gonna go and pawn grandma’s locket

Hell, maybe it’ll change my luck

Ain’t nothing gonna be right no how

'Cause I know I can’t ever lose

This devil that’s dragging me down

And the oxycontin blues