Small Engine Repair

I work right out of my own garage

I keep my own damn books

My wife's up there in the trailer house, mister

She's forty-six but keepin' her looks

Your lawnmower's needin' its carburetor cleaned

Your air filter ain't suckin' air

Leave it over yonder and call me in the mornin'

Small engine repair

Now it's weed cutters and leaf blowers

Chainsaw rotors and lawnmower motors

One-day turnaround, prices are fair

Small engine repair

I worked ten years for the water department

Ditch rider on a big white horse

Turn that wheel, you got irrigatin' water

From the mouth of the mother source

Catfish heads and old windblown apples

Blowin' 'cross the cotton fields

Back when a farmer worked ten-hour days

And lived off his year's yield

Now it's weed cutters and leaf blowers

Chainsaw rotors and lawnmower motors

One-day turnaround, prices are fair

Small engine repair

And if a man's heart was like a lawnmower engine

I'd have done pretty good in my life

Change the oil and keep the carburetor clean

And mow down all the problems of life

I was born right here on the edge of West Texas

A mile off the Rio Grande

Yeah, I done time, I can see you starin'

At the skull on the back of my hand

Now time ain't nothin' but a box of old parts

On a busted-up cement floor

And time ain't nothin' but a muddy old river

Rollin' out my back door

Yeah, it's weed cutters and leaf blowers

Chainsaw rotors and lawnmower motors

One-day turnaround, prices are fair

Small engine repair

Yeah, weed cutters and leaf blowers

Chainsaw rotors and lawnmower motors

One-day turnaround, prices are fair

Small engine repair

Yeah, one-day turnaround, prices are fair

Small engine repair