Floating in the lower nine
Waiting for a boat to throw me a line
See my stella smile

Sitting on the roof eating alligator pie
First day the water rise
Second day the sun is high

Third day stella cried cause night times dark as a dead man's eye's

Tell me when is help gonna come

Stella said daddy when you gonna put me in a song?

Morning ride on by thank lord everybody's alright

Don't mean to throw us a second line
The devil left us here to die


Stella said daddy when you gonna put me in a song?

All the things we know and

Everything we hoped for
All the things we wanted
Everything that was sure

Now there is a scar
Where the old men used to be
The corner store and market

Where stella used to sing to me

Grace is all i'm asking

When will grace return

Remember how i feel in those days of the summertime

Then stella smiled
Stella said daddy when you gonna put me in a song?


Tell me lord when help is gonna come
Daddy when you gonna put me in a song?