Please Finish My Roof Before You Leave Me

Duration

3:14

Genres

Folk

Description

Lyrics

v.1 I divorced a carpenter who's better than you. So finish that fence before you're through and then just march straight out that door and don't come 'round here anymore. CH: Please finish my roof before you leave me; the tarp's still flapping in the breeze, in the breeze, I can't tell if you're friend or foe, so just take your junk when you go, when you go. v.2 Got a big gray squirrel in my kitchen, I don't have much time to listen, Around here you don't know what's ahead, And I really need to get that "skunk" out of my bed. The bulkhead's missing a few hinges, While you go on your weekly binge, I bet you think I've got a little wealth, I'm just better off by myself. Ch.(as above) v.3 You called me the day my daddy died, To tell me that the furnace was fried, I left the hospital when he was frail, Got a flat at home from a roofin' nail. In a drunken rage you rutted up my yard And broke somethings for which I worked hard; You promised me it wouldn't be this way But things remain unfinished to this day! Ch.(as above)