JASON & THE SCORCHERS - ABSOLUTELY SWEET MARIE

ABSOLUTELY SWEET MARIE

JASON & THE SCORCHERS

COMPOSERS: BRIAN BLADE; TRIXIE WHITLEY; DANIEL LANOIS  & DARRELL L. JOHNSON

LABEL: UNIVERSAL MUSIC

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1983

Jason & the Scorchers, originally Jason & the Nashville Scorchers, are a Cowpunk/Country rock band that formed in 1981 and is led by singer/songwriter Jason Ringenberg.

With a sound that combines hard rock, punk rock and country music, Jason and the Scorchers are noted for their energetic live performances, and have earned strong reviews from critics, including Mark Deming, who declared they "blazed a trail for the cowpunk and alt-country movements that followed in their wake."

Jason and the Scorchers have maintained a loyal core group of fans around the world for more than 30 years. Jason and the Scorchers released their latest album Halcyon Times in February 2010.

Well, your railroad gate, you know I just can't jump it

Sometimes it gets so, so hard, you see

I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet

With all these promises you left for me

So where are you tonight?

Where are you tonight, sweet Marie?

Well, I waited for you when I was half sick

Well, I waited for you when you hated me

Well, I waited for you inside the frozen traffic

When you knew I had some other place to be

So, where are you tonight?

Where are you tonight, sweet Marie?

Well, I don't know how it happened

But the river-boat captain, he knows my fate

Let's do this baby even he maybe just gonna have to wait, wait, wait

So, where are you tonight?

Where are you tonight, sweet Marie?

Well, anybody can be just like me, obviously

Then again not many of them are like you, fortunately, fortunately

Six white horses that you did promise

Were finally delivered to the penitentiary

But to live outside the law, you must be honest, darling

I know you will always say that you agree, alright

So, where are you tonight? Where are you tonight?

Where are you tonight, sweet Marie?