Been on a barbed wire highway 40 days and nights    I ain't complainin', it's my job and it suits me right    I got a sweet soft fever rushin' around my head    I'm gonna sleep tonight in Maria's bed       Got on a dead man suit and smilin' skull ring    Lucky graveyard boots and a song to sing    I keep my heart in my work but trouble's in my head    And I keep my soul in Maria's bed       I been up on sugar mountain, cross the sweet blue seas    I walked the valley of love and tears and mystery    I got run out'a luck and give myself up for dead    And I drank the cool clear waters from Maria's bed       She give me candy stick kisses 'neath a wolf dog moon    One sweet breath and she'll take you mister to the upper room    I was burned by the angels, sold wings of lead    Then I fell in the roses and sweet salvation of Maria's bed       I been out in the desert yeah doin' my time    Searchin' through the dust for fools gold, lookin' for a sign    Holy man said "hold on brother there's a light up ahead"    Ain't nothing like a light that shines on me in Maria's bed       Well I'll take my blessings at the riverhead    I'm living in the light of Maria's bed