Confederate Jasmine
by Bill Callahan
From the album: Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
Track 12 of 20 on Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest (2019).
Duration: 3:40
Lyrics for Confederate Jasmine
Life has given you a gift May I have it? Sitting up alone, sipping on writer's cologne My wife sleeps well I should have asked for some loving In the morning, for sure When Confederate Jasmine clings to the air Like a soft note from a dented horn And Grover counts to fifty In the other room, sweetly forlorn But there's a wolf in my house Messing up the bed I learned to make in AA And a frightened child won't tell the wolf to go away It brings a smile to the tear in the eye of the shepherd on the hillside We've seen enough wolf for one day And packs his staff away The heart of man Is a fork in the road That's where I stand As the ocean pulls the moon from behind the cloud His face makes the wolves howl Wakes my wife, makes my wife find a towel She says "It's late, I'm bleeding" And we're making love right now