Rattle in a boxcar, a spark on the rail Hollow in the brick wall and the hound found no trail Get the shovel, Lonnie's under the tree Whittling a root to keep his bones a mystery He'll make a fine mystery Swimming in a graveyard in a mahogany coat Scandal in the water and the poison in the joke Get the metal from Old Junk Iron Jaw And leave the man alone to make some sense of it all To make believe in it all To make believe it at all Moving in the mansion to burn down the block Paying off a preacher but they all died of shock Get the neighbor, I heard a voice in the smoke Laughing as he spoke he said that whiskey ain't a joke The whiskey ain't no joke Rattle in a boxcar, a spark on the rail Hollow in the brick wall and the hound found no trail Get the ladder, he's buried up in the tree Chasing down the hatchet 'til the sun is underneath Until the sky is underneath Until the sky is underneath