Sewing Machine - Vic Chesnutt

Suck in your gut, clench your fist

Just finished scaling a big black fish

On a bench out behind the tool shack

In a patch of poison sumac

Mama ordered us some catalogue jeans

She made the cuffs on the sewing machine

Sewing machine.

Granny wrote a letter up under table lamp

Said her thumbs hurt cause all the beans she had to snap

I lay on the porch looking through the cracks

See the dog asleep and watch those ugly chickens scratch

The prom is coming big sister should be a queen

Mama makes a dress on the sewing machine

Sewing machine.

Daddy is asleep he’s just home from work

In his comfy chair in his yellowed undershirt

Sister is sad she just got the curse

I am fairly happy cause my go-cart kinda works

I want to be a vampire for the halloween

Mama makes a cape on the sewing machine

Sewing machine…