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Mason Jar
Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.
Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals
Drinking and memories of New Orleans frame a narrator's account of a vanished relationship. His recollection of a seventeen-year-old and her departure with her father remains tangled with longing and self-pity. The mason jar shifts from party companion to the image of being submerged in grief without knowing where the other person has gone.
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Recorded versions
2 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.
Female Vocal · 2:55
Mason Jar — Female Vocal — Piano-Led Narrative Folk-Rock
Piano-Led Narrative Folk-Rock
Lyrics
Mason Jar
Words by Douglas Heyes Jr
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MASON JAR I’ve been down to New Orleans You all know just what that means Old French Quarter hurricane Drinking in the drivin’ rain Driving home before the Sun Wake up with my little one In the back seat of my car Thank God I brought my Mason jar I got me some moonshine rye Delta dawn still makes me cry Whiskey Gin and apple wine Kerosene and turpentine Tonight I won’t commit a crime Tonight we will be feeling fine Cuz you and I are making time Right down by the Waterline If you can make it down here I can put you up Got a mattress in the rusty bed Of my old pickup truck Come on pretty baby Time to change your luck Maybe we’ll go out tonight And try to make a buck Let me come and dress you up Satin shoes and hair all up Let your diamond shine so bright Tell me that you’re mine tonight Cupid’s arrow ran me through The minute that I first saw you There outside the biker bar Fireball and Mason Jar You were only 17 Blue‐eyed Midwest beauty queen High school football float parade Baby girl, you had it made That’s when I was comin’ round When lights went off all over town Long after the sun went down Fast asleep in your nightgown I’d climb up from down below Come right in your back window Lay beside you all night long Listen to my sweet love song Wasn’t long and you were gone Daddy left; took you along He never knew his right from wrong Took you down before the dawn Another morning delta blue Here beside the Blue Bayou Gazing at the Eastern Star Drinkin’ from my Mason Jar Thank God I brought my Mason Jar In the back seat of my car I still don’t know where you are On the bottom of my Mason Jar You must be down in there somewhere Stardust shimmers everywhere Wish you were here but you’re so far I’m drowning in my Mason Jar *****
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