[00:19.11]Alkali... here's mud in yer eye[00:23.49]You've been lost in the desert 25 years or more[00:27.99]Ah yer whiskey streams[00:34.80]And yer gold field dreams[00:39.45]Well Lady Luck won't let you dark her door[00:46.56]And they tell me your a ghost of a man[00:51.12]Lord, I believe it's true[00:54.36]And they say you had a woman once[00:57.99]But she turned her back on you[01:02.25]You old gold minin' hobo[01:04.38]Dry well desert rat Alkali[01:09.87]Put the bacon on to fry[01:11.49]Well, the sun's comin' up and the mule's waitin' for his grain[01:21.33]Just a one room shack[01:25.35]By the Santa Fe track[01:29.19]It's an old lick of earth[01:31.44]That's screamin' for a drop of rain[01:36.78]And there's a time for work[01:39.21]And a time for play[01:41.16]And a time for lyin' down[01:45.09]And the road might lead to the rainbow's end[01:49.02]A dusty old desert town[01:52.14]You old gold minin' hobo[01:55.08]Dry well desert rat Alkali[02:13.53]Alkali... there's a buzzard in the sky[02:20.01]And he's a-countin' his chances on a-pickin' your skinflint bones[02:28.26]Ah, raise your hand[02:31.71]Throw a curse on the land[02:35.40]They're gonna find you one day[02:37.98]Lyin' 'neath an unmarked stone[02:43.62]Well the desert is a lonely place[02:47.40]For a man to lose his head[02:51.42]They tell me when you start to talkin' to yourself[02:55.08]Lord, you might as well be dead...[02:59.22]You old gold minin' hobo[03:01.35]Dry well desert rat Alkali[03:08.10]Alkali[03:08.28]Alkali[03:08.46]You old gold minin' hobo[03:17.04]Dry well desert rat Alkali[03:23.76]Alkali[03:23.94]Alkali[03:24.12]You old gold minin' hobo[03:32.91]Dry well desert rat Alkali