Young girls and porches are filling out 
Tempers and torches are burning 
Brown is the colour of town 
living in thunder 
Hair on my top lip now I'm a man 
I so often hear and feel it 
Nice paying the price for being kept under 
Mama says don't hang around that front gate too long 
Boys like you who stay too late are surely gonna go so wrong 
But Mama there's safety in numbers 
It's the first time I've ever felt strong 
Delaware Taggett and the Outlaw Boys 
Adding a laugh to the Broadway noise 
Slipping your mind where your mind don't wanna go 
Off-duty porters lay sleeping wives 
On-duty daughters are finding 
why just touching a boy gives a thrill like a shiver 
Whispers and shadows are moving fast 
No prizes given to people 
last drowned in the past down on the river 
chorus