hit me once for broke hit me two for the road well abilene was a scream and a curse tell another joke before i go for better or baby for worse back when high was high and low was low and ten cent would buy you the matinee show give a damn who the star the theatre was dark and took you away with a glow if i had a dollar for every wallet i stole oh i d buy this whole town the judge and the pound i d let all them bad dogs go but i don t so i ll spend my last on the wind for she runs through my veins like home i took it spinning love with the top down rode her three times down the highway nine may have broke a bone oh i don t know anyway i m still alive a haunted heart don t beat but once a week the rest is only echoes a parade of ghosts and dirty sheets from govalle to jericho well if i had a dollar for every wallet i stole oh i d buy this whole town the judge and the pound i d let all them bad dogs go but i don t so i ll spend my last on the wind for she runs through my veins like home