Southern Comfort

[Verse 1] I've been a thrill seeking rambler And often came into this town But the thrills were too high for my little sky So I dug in and I've settled down And I got a good job in Nashville No way they can pay me enough For grinding up tobacco leaves Making brute and snuff [Chorus] Southern comfort is killing me [Verse 2] I'm slowly choking in Tennessee I shovel the snuff until late afternoon Then I crawl with the traffic and I choke on its fumes And fall on the face when I get to my room [Chorus] [Verse 3] I met a woman in Nashville For a while we were carrying on She'd washed snuff out of my shirts every night And keep me with clean ones on But I guess she got tired of tobacco At least of the regular kind Now I'm still working where nicotine And memories are burning in my mind [Chorus] [Verse 4] The Cumberland cannot inherit each bee I'm sniffing and dipping and living alone I smell funny smoke and I know where she's gone She's in some other county now proving her own [Chorus][x2]