Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Chorus

I've been around in Donkey Town

 Too long, Baby, too long

Checking out of Donkey Town

 So long, so long, so long.

Her pretty eyes are pretty still

 But Jim's got a quite of a squint, yeah

I dug my last check from out of the mine

 Now I feel like I've done my stint.

 Jim got an army pension

 When he walked from the military court

Nobody ever mentions the medical report.

She does little things for me

 She likes to get the both of us high, yeah

She says I am a tender-hearted man

 Prince Charming, yeah, sure, I'm the guy.

 He likes the wrecker's dogs on chains

 And the smoke from the company fires

Diesel oil in the trucks and cranes

 And the smell of burning tires.

I've been around in Donkey Town

 Too long, Baby, too long

Checking out of Donkey Town

 So long, so long, so long.

There's a purple heart in a silver tin

 And a grey .45 in a draw, yeah

Most of the time you can drink with him

 But some other time he's just sore.

 On days when she says she can't think straight

 Or feels like she's getting the jumps

She'll go shoot off her .38

 At cans at a Donkey Town dump.

It was Friday late and she crossed those legs

 She told me flat out, she would, yeah

If I could pull up my trailer legs

 We could get away together for good.

 I sure wish her the best of luck

 She's going to need it, thinking of Jim

I don't like to leave her stuck

 But she's near as bad as him.

I've been around in Donkey Town

 Too long, Baby, too long

Checking out of Donkey Town

 So long, so long, so long.