Lyrics to Stripmine

© Eric Michael Jones [ASCAP]

Three AM we were sittin’ in my daddy’s car

Me and Lucy McGee decided to go too far

So we went down to the stripmine

We weren’t looking for love

Just a piece of happiness

She searched every one of my pockets

As I looked up her new address

Hey hey hey …

I rubbed her the wrong way

She ended up with my best friend

Somehow I ended up with her cousin

We’d all get liquored up and smoke some weed

Man our heads were buzzin’

When we went down to the stripmine

She was looking for love

I was looking for mystery

Baby maybe I’ll recognize it

When you put your lips on me

We were high on a hilltop,

Just kids committing little crimes

Like skinny-dipping in the moonlight

While Gladys Knight was singing

“Not much longer would you be mine”

Well the hill is gone and a hole remains

On the outskirts of the town

And a man is what that boy became

Now I’m gonna shut it down

I’m calling up Lucy McGee

She’s got kids now of her own

And I got three

Won’t you go down to the rally with me

We’re closing down the stripmine

We’re closing down the stripmine