Wild Wind Lyrics - Robert Earl Keen

Down on Main Street, after sundown 

Good Time Charlie and Wandering Bill 

Thought they might hold up old Hoppy's Drive In 

One got away, one never will 

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And that's the way it goes around here 

I think everybody knows 

That's the song we've been singin' for years 

That's the way the wild wind blows 

Too-tall Annie kept her money 

In a Bible she never read 

They found Lefty - her first ex-husband 

In his new pickup truck at the bottom of the river bed 

[Chorus] 

Luther Martin - he ain't got no money 

But he sells papers and buys his wine 

His great granddaddy owned half of Main Street 

Luther's daddy didn't have a dime 

[Chorus] 

Ain't no secret ol' Doc Skinner 

Wrote prescriptions, made lots of friends 

He could dance like nobody's business 

Folks around here are sure missing him 

[Chorus]