Lyrics:

Sally, tell what you're doing here
Sally, tell what you're doing here
I left a jug among the reeds and corn
A big Jim Bible with its pages torn

Turn a guitar 'round my throwing arm
Jump in the briar
Rube it'll lay across the bed
You're coming home
Sally, tell what you're doing here
Sally, tell what you're doing here
Break a fire with a paper match
Burn a tattoo on a guy with an eye patch

Cut your name on my wooden leg
Drop it in a coal
Rube it'll lay across the bed
You're coming home
Sally, tell what you're doing here
Sally, tell what you're doing here
Stroking bottom of a stern old cup
Blue-eyed wood hand down going crossing up

Jack your coat against the back room wall
Hand on a sleeve
Rube it'll lay across the bed
You're coming home

Bag of crows on a front yard fence
And a chicken head walking stick
Pay no pretense

Cat knocked out teeth
Can't chew on a bone
Gimp down a hole
Rube it'll lay across the bed
Are you coming home?
Sally, tell what you're doing here
Sally, tell what you're doing here
I hopped a mule with a rail tie sack
Know brother Jimmy says she ain't coming back

I'm a strong man but piney trading gum for wire
I waited a long time
Rube it'll lay across the bed
You're coming home
Sally, tell what you're doing here
Sally, tell what you're doing here
Sally, tell what you're doing here
Sally, tell what you're doing here