Lyrics
Some people say it was cocaine
Some people say it was gin
But I know the name of the bottles of booze who did my brother in
They put the last clean shirt on my brother, Bill
They put the last clean shirt on my brother, Bill
You know, they found him in the back seat of an old abandoned Ford
When I touched the hand of my brother, Bill, it was as stiff as a running board
They put the last clean shirt on my brother, Bill
They put the last clean shirt on my brother, Bill, yeah
Preacher says, "He's gone, gone to a better world"
He's through with his last five minutes, he went on loving on his last girl
They put the last clean shirt on my brother, Bill
They put the last clean shirt on my brother, Bill, yeah
They put the last clean shirt on my brother, Bill
That's all our family had left, all left in his will
Well, there's one clean shirt, last clean shirt
They put it on my brother, when they're laying him down, as a king in the ground
Last clean shirt