Nine Steps Down

Nine steps down on a ten story ride
 One part love and two parts pride
 Three tons of steel with four miles to go
 Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico
 Rigged on point, the top of the tower
 Watch for those waves they'll be rising fast
 The call to the driller down on the shore
 Derrickhand you better keep pumping that gas
 No time to think of the girls in their cotton
 Dresses they wear in the early springtime
 Memories here they're all long forgotten
 Nine steps down on a ten story ride
 Nine steps down on a ten story ride
 Now all of the boys thought you were a beauty
 My motivation was a little less kind
 Come with me I got something to show you
 Out past the trees where the river runs wild
 My oh my but you were more than I bargained
 For one time at the five and dime
 Spending all my nickels and quarters
 One part love and two parts pride
 One part love and two parts pride
 You put the hammer on down, we might just make it
 Watch your eyes from drifting off the road
 Won't you drink 'em on down five for a dollar
 Get 'em to the man with the weekly load
 The rubber on the tires burning like a matchstick
 Blacklist heart on a long ride home
 Ain't no god just a lifetime of Sundays
 Three tons of steel and four miles to go
 Three tons of steel and four miles to go
 Waters a-rising all around your mind
 The slack pulling fast but you try to keep a-loose
 There's a storm rolling in on New Orleans
 Gonna string everybody in a hang man's noose
 Nine steps down on a ten story ride
 One part love and two parts pride
 Three tons of steel with four miles to go
 Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico
 Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico
 Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico