Delta Line (Live)

Momma has all kinds of dreams
 Where she goes looking for hidden things
 Stolen silver, daddy's wine
 Bastard children in the line
 Last night she heard a warning call
 Woke her up
 It was the train, that's all
 And every dream's about the war
 Since she lost her oldest born
 The train from Memphis just arrived
 With somebody else's son who died
 She don't sleep well on the Delta line
 She don't sleep well on the Delta line
 Ellie Mae got engaged fast
 But there are questions we don't ask
 A civil wedding set for May
 Momma's gonna make a velvet cake
 You know they asked the reverend first
 But they won't defile the church
 He saw the fullness in her eyes
 Said from God no man can hide
 The train from Memphis just arrived
 With a dress that's too small for the bride
 She don't sleep well on the Delta line
 She don't sleep well on the Delta line
 Now Aunt Marie won't cut her hair
 Since she dropped her baby down the stairs
 She ran off into the woods
 But that won't do that baby any good
 They feed her bottles day and night
 But she won't take them
 She just cries, cries, cries
 Better she learn to suffer now
 Before her husband shows her how
 The train from Memphis just arrived
 Carrying a hungry orphan child
 She don't sleep well on the Delta line
 She don't sleep well on the Delta line
 Momma has all kinds of dreams
 Where she goes looking for hidden things