Summer sun is swinging low
 Out here in the cotton row
 Surrounded by my sorrow
 Summer sun is swinging low
 Ain't no mother for my brother and me
 Lost her back in 63
 Drowned herself in a sea of Jim Beam
 Ain't no mother for a brother and me

 So I'm burnin' the woodshed down
 Going to burn it to the ground
 Going to kick the ashes all around
 I'm burnin' the woodshed down

 Daddy beat me black and he beat me blue
 Broke his hickory stick in two
 God only knows what I'm bound to do
 Daddy beat me black and he beat me blue

 So I'm burnin' the woodshed down
 Going to burn it to the ground
 I'm going to kick the ashes all around
 I'm burnin' the woodshed down

 I'm going to show that man just want I mean
 Pour out this can of kerosene
 I'm going to toss a match into the breeze
 I'm going to show that man just want I mean

 Hey, I'm burnin' the woodshed down
 Going to burn it to the ground
 I'm going to kick the ashes all around
 I'm burnin' the woodshed down
 I'm going to kick the ashes all around
 I'm burnin' the woodshed down