Did you see that lady there they stripped her to her underwear
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She took it one step further and stripped to bare through the rising flames
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And smoke she laughed as all the police choked
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And then she danced in the government pyre the jailhouse is on fire
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She grabbed a guard and stole his keys unlocked the cells
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And set us free and we ran and caught our pants
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On the old barbed wire we hit the dirt
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We hit the road we jumped the fence
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We kissed a toad and we hollared at the ladies
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In the churchyard choir the jailhouse is on fire
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I hopped a train and headed west free woman
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Now just like the rest all the hobos on the line called me a liar
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The train it choked and spewed and spat and coal smoke billowed thick
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And black and she was everywhere and rising higher she set the jailhouse on fire
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Jailhouse Fire
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Laura Veirs |