Mexican Home
Iris Dement

Well, it got so hot last night I swear you couldn't hardly breathe

Heat lightning burned the sky like alcohol

I sat on the porch without my shoes

And watched the cars roll by

As the headlights raced to the corner of the kitchen wall


Mama dear, your girl is here, far across the sea

Searching for that sacred core that burns inside of me

And I feel the storm, all wet and warm, not ten miles away,

Approaching my Mexican home


'My God', I cried, 'it's so hot inside you could die in the living room'

Take the fan out of the window, prop the door back with a broom

The cuckoo clock has died of shock and the windows feel no pane

And the air's as still as the throttle on a funeral train


Mama dear, your girl is here, far across the sea

Searching for that sacred core that burns inside of me

And I feel the storm, all wet and warm, not ten miles away,

Approaching my Mexican home


My father died on the porch outside on an August afternoon

I sipped bourbon and I cried with a friend by the light of the moon

Now it's Hurry, hurry! Step right up! It's a matter of life or death

The sun is going down and the moon is just holding it's breath


Mama dear, your girl is here, far across the sea

Waiting for that sacred core that burns inside of me

And I feel a storm, all wet and warm, not ten miles away,

Approaching my Mexican home


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  (We\   (We"re Not) The Jet Set   Acres Of Corn   After You're Gone   After You're Gone   All Is Sold   And This You Call Work   Banks Of Marble   Before the Colors Fade   Big City   Blessed Assurance   Break My Mind   Broad Gold   Calling For You   Childhood Memories   City Of New Orleans   Easy's Gettin' Harder Every Day   Easy's Gettin' Harder Every Day   Fifty Miles of Elbow Room   Fill My Way With Love   Folsom Prison Blues   From An Airplane   From The Oriental Notebook   Go On Ahead and Go Home   God May Forgive You (But I Won't)   God May Forgive You (But I Won't)   God Walks The Dark Hills   Goodbye Little Darling   He Reached Down   Heart's Highway   Hide Thou Me   Higher Ground   Hobo BIll's Last Ride   Hobo Bill's Last Ride   Hotter Than Mojave in My Heart   I Don't Want to Get Adjusted   I Don't Want To Get Adjusted To This World   I Don't Want To Get Adjusted To This World   I Miss A Lot Of Trains   I Never Shall Forget the Day   I Still Miss Someone   I'll Take My Sorrow Straight   I'm Out To Try My Hand At Love Again   I'm Still In Love With You   I've Got That Old Time Religion In My Heart   I'll Take My Sorrow Straight   I'm Out To Try My Hand At Love Again   I'm Still In Love With You   I've Got That Old Time Religion In My Heart   If That Ain't Love   In Spite Of Ourselves   Infamous Angel   It's Not With A Lover's Lyre \/ The Muse   Jambalaya   Keep Me God   Keep On The Sunny Side   Last Toast   Leaning on the Everlasting Arms   Let the Mystery Be   Let's Invite Them Over   Let's Invite Them Over   Letter to Mom   Like A Whte Stone   Listening To Singing   Livin' On the Inside   Living On The Inside   Lot's Wife   Love Abides   Makin' My Way Back Home   Mama Was Always Tellin' Her Truth   Mama's Opry   Mama's Opry   Mom And Dad's Waltz   Mom And Dad's Waltz   Mornin' Glory   Morning Glory   My Life   No Time To Cry   Nobody Gonna Love On Me No More   Not With Deserters   Oh How Good   On The Wings Of A Dove   Our Town   Out Of the Fire   Over The Garden Wall   Pack Up Your Sorrows   Prayer   Pretty Saro   Quality Time   Reject The Burden   Sing The Delta   Song About Songs   Sweet Forgiveness   Sweet Hour of Prayer   Sweet Is The Melody   That Glad Reunion   That Glad Reunion Day   That's The Way Love Goes   That's The Way Love Goes   The Cherry Tree Carol   The Heart Tells The Story   The Kingdom Has Already Come   The Night I Learned How Not To Pray   The Old Gospel Ship   The Old Rugged Cross   The Shores Of Jordan   The Souls Of All My Dears   The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home   The Unclouded Day   The Way I Should   There's a Wall in Washington   There's a Whole Lotta Heaven   There's A Wall In Washington   These Hills   This Kind of Happy   To My Poems   Trouble   Troublesome Waters   Upon The Hard Crest   Walkin' Home   Walkin' Home   Wasteland of the Free   Wayfarin' Stranger   Wayfarin' Stranger   We Could   Wheels Of Love   When I Was Yours   When Love Was Young   When MY Mornin' Comes Around   When My Mornin' Comes Around   Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies   Whispering Pines   Wildwood Flower   You've Done Nothing Wrong   You've Done Nothing Wrong

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