[Verse 1]
So I grew up hungry
And I grew up hard
Took the streets and alleys
For my own backyard
I got a break and enter
On my list of crimes
Been before the judge
One too many times

[Chorus 1]
East Houston Blues
Scale of one to ten
About a nine and a half
Is where it's always been
It's in the drinking water
And in the bar ditch mud
East Houston Blues
Gets in a poor boy's blood

[Verse 2]
I learned to drink and drive
When I was twelve years old
My uncle Fireball Stoddard
Rest his ragged soul
He run a '54 Ford
Up and down the drag
Sipping Early Times
Straight from a paper bag
[Chorus 2]
East Houston Blues
Picture Dowling Street
And Navigation Boulevard
Where the crossroads meet
Three sheets in the wind
Brick shy of a load
East Houston Blues
Down a nowhere road

[Bridge]
Forty dollar boots
Big Bangora hat
Stolen money from an inside job
Maybe think about that

[Verse 3]
I'm a Third Ward child
My mother's only son
Which means exactly nothing
Without a loaded gun
I don't believe in love
This I guarantee
If there's a God above
He's got it in for me
[Chorus 3]
East Houston Blues
What you want me to say?
I need to find me a woman
Keep the wolves at bay
Keep my head on straight
Maybe toe the line
East Houston Blues
Ain't no friend of mine

[Outro]
So you understand
That of which I speak
I'm a worried man
On a losing streak