Boiling Water | Trish & Darin Murphy

🎵 Boiling Water | Trish & Darin Murphy 🎵 - Length: 0:4:3

Boiling Water - Written by Trish Murphy Recorded Live December 18, 2023 Live from Norfolk Street is an on-going concert series recorded live at McGonigel's Mucky Duck in Houston, Texas. Our live-streamed concert series is listener supported. For access to our catalog of full length shows, extras, encores, and interviews, become a contributing member at: https://livefromnorfolkstreet.com/ Lyrics: It’s Friday and I’m making fried eggs And the pane in the window is cracked And there’s my daddy Coming cross the pasture Smokestack stuck in his back It’s 97 and it’s barely lunchtime And he blusters in through the back door Where’s your mama He’s just getting started And I’m staring down at the floor CHORUS: Boiling water Just to have something cookin Look what you’re giving away Boiling water Just to have something doing Look what you’re giving away Daughter running from the heat of the summer She’s got to have someone, someone to blame Daughter a dying to jump in the water But the water is rolling away Just like marbles make an empty box rattle Child put your eyes back in your head You ain’t got the sense God gave a turnip You didn’t listen to one word I said. CHORUS 97 and I’m walking on eggshells There’s nothing to step on but cracks There’s my daddy coming cross the pasture Smokestack breaking his back