But the wife was in bed and the horses had to be fed
In the middle of a southern town
Besides, it's 2.99, 2.99 a story
He take good care of my native son
And he carries his body as heavy as lead
C'mon, just 2.99, 2.99 a story
But in the furthest place I've ever known
And he, he even lets us drink spring water on Sundays
Yeah, sure likes the spot, sure likes the spot
From a local man named Ethan Frome
And somewhere further down the road, where I also roam
And he call me by my native name
Pay up y'all, it's just 2.99 a story
His flesh was wounded but he made it back home
2.99, 2.99 a story
And the neighbors whisper how he prefers to be alone
There lives a boy who just come back from war
But when I get me all real tired
I catch me a horse driven carriage ride
Sold for 2.99, 2.99 a gallon
Beneath a fancy engraved tomb head stone
But he sure likes the spot, sure likes the spot
His mother calls him by his given name
And I got no more strength to roam
He don't say much as he tips his hat
And he, he don't pay rent no more, no more
Where even I so rarely roam
2.99, 2.99 a gallon
Say, “2.99, 2.99 a gallon”
And he get, he gets nightmares about boys dripping blood
Beneath the cemetery burial plot
He sure likes the spot, sure likes the spot
C'mon, just 2.99, 2.99 a gallon
C'mon, ya'll, it's 2.99, 2.99, 2.99, 2.99
C'mon, 2.99, 2.99 a story
He could have been flying through the snow on his sled
Pay up, y'all, it's 2.99, 2.99 a g-g-gallon
Pay up, y'all, it's 2.99, 2.99 a story
Pay up, it's just 2.99, 2.99 a story
There lives my caterpillar cousin
2.99, 2.99, 2.99, 2.99, 2.99, 2.99, 2.99, 2.99
