Billy Joe Shaver
Blood is Thicker Than Water
[Verse 1]
You come dancing in here
With the devil’s daughter
Spilling beer and doing things
You hadn’t ought to
You found her walking the streets
Carrying a sack of quarters
Now she’s stealing rings off the hands
Of your dying mother
And if that witch don’t leave
I believe I’m gonna have to help her
[Chorus]
Don’t you know that blood
Blood is thicker than water
Blood is thicker than water
[Verse 2]
And the mother’s heart
Are sold medicines and daughters
When the water breaks
They wash out into the world
They’re the tie that binds
Bеtween the mothers and the fathеrs
[Chorus]
I know that blood
Blood is thicker than water
Blood is thicker than water
[Verse 3]
Can’t you see I’m down to the ground
I can’t get no lower
I’ve seen you pukin’ out your guts & running with sluts
When you was married to my mother
Now the powers that be are leading you and me
Like two lambs to the slaughter
I need a friend, I’m your son
And you’re always gonna be my father
[Chorus]
Don’t you know that blood
Blood is thicker than water
Blood is thicker than water
[Verse 4]
When the thief arrives
We won’t even know what hit us
And the blood of Christ
Will be spilled throughout the world
And the born again
All the children of the father
Will be drawn as one
To the living well of life
And the hand of God
Will bring creation back to order
[Chorus]
I tell you blood
Blood is thicker than water
Blood is thicker than water
Blood is thicker than water
Blood is thicker than water