Maria's Bed (Live at Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA - 5/17/2005)

Been on a barbed wire highway forty days and nights

I ain't complain', it's my job and it suits me right

I got a sweet soul fever rushin' around my head

And I'm gonna sleep tonight in Maria's bed

Got on a dead man's suit and smilin' skull ring

Lucky graveyard boots and a song to sing

I keep my heart in my work, my troubles in my head

And I keep my soul in Maria's bed

Hey-hey, nai-nai-nai-nai, nai-nai-nai

Hey-yeah, nai-nai-nai-nai, nai-nai-nai

I been up on sugar mountain, 'cross the sweet blue sea

I walked the valley of love and tears and mystery

I got run outta luck and gave myself up for dead

Then I drank the cool clear waters from Maria's bed

She give me candy stick kisses 'neath a wolf dog moon

One sweet breath and she'll take you, mister, to the upper room

I was burned by the angels, sold wings of lead

Then I fell in the roses and sweet salvation of Maria's bed

I been out in the desert, yeah, doin' my time

Siftin' through the dust for fools gold, lookin' for a sign

Holy man said, "Hold on, brother, there's a light up ahead"

Ain't nothin' like the light that shines on me in Maria's bed

Man, I take my blessings at the river head

I'm living in the light of Maria's bed

Nai-nai-nai-nai, nai-nai-nai

Hey-yeah, nai-nai-nai-nai, nai-nai-nai

Hey-yeah, nai-nai-nai-nai, nai-nai-nai

Hey-yeah, nai-nai-nai, oh, bring it down now

A-one, two, go