Lyrics

Momma was a hot tenth-grader
When she dropped out to be his wife
Daddy was an options trader
Never worked a day in his life
My sister was a scuba diver
Seventeen years with Jacques Cousteau
Me, I'm a forklift driver, today
So just tell me where them boxes go

Jesse was a crypto miner
Said he was my best friend
Run off to South Carolina
And I never saw him again
Heard he met a girl in Charleston
Heard they had a real nice boat
Me, I'm stuck in Austin
And I'm guessing that's all she wrote

And I don't know, but I've been told the moonlight shows I'm getting old
As the beads of sweat on my brow turn to a trickle
And if I dare to be so bold ain't nobody cares that I've been sold
Another penny's worth of bad luck for a hobo nickel

Sadie wasn't much of a lover
Fell asleep every night
Didn't care what you thought of her
I think she kept me 'round just for spite
I guess she tried to let me down easy
Said it was her and not me
Still there's something sleazy
About her sitting on daddy's knee

And I don't know, but I've been told love's just a moonlit stranglehold
Ain't a girl left in the world that ain't a little fickle
And every time that she got caught, I realized that I'd done bought
Another twenty dollar heartbreak for a hobo nickel

Twenty-three was another bad one
There's a Joker in every deck
I guess I lost sight of having fun
So I figured, Hey, What the Heck
Thumbed my way down to Reno
Filled out all of the forms
Now they all know what we know
That I can't out run the storms

And I don't know, but I've been told
My tab says this town's gettin' old
And the bottom of another jars got me in a pickle
If I can be perfectly candid
Between you and me and the one armed bandit
You ain't never hitting three bars for a hobo nickel