Proper Fence - Shakey Graves

Just a mile down the road and a street or two away

Lives that freckled misses that I want most every day

To the home of her father

Im gonna drag my sore ol' feet

Tell him shes the woman who can wake me from my sleep

Well she said kiss me

And lord I listened

But I haven’t gone back since

I curse the mind for building proper fence

So I will roll and I will suffer

Curse the soil and curse the stones

Keep my eyes a leakin' for that girl does love my bones

Well I’ve known her for a year

I’ve only seen her seven days

One week to many to keep a man like me away

Well she said kiss me

And lord I listened

But I haven’t gone back since

I curse the mind for building proper fence

So three years after

Found her doorstep

Found her shoes and found her kin

They told me old grim reaper

Done come and turned her in

Pourin' liquor on the stone

That marks my lost and gone

Well I will whimper and wail

And sing her funeral song