Guns Are the Tongues (2017) Richard Thompson

[Verse 1]
Carrie ran a murderous crew
Dedicated through and through
And the chance to prove they never squandered
And they liked to kill so clean
Save the innocent, kill the mean
But from time to time a bullet wandered

[Verse 2]
Carrie kept her souvenirs
Kept her scrapbook down the years
Of her brave boys, how she cried to read it
And a few fell by the way
Or lost the stomach for the fray
So young blood was always needed

[Verse 3]
Carrie noticed him right away
The way his whole body would sway
Like a trawler boy finding his legs ashore
And they said he was just nineteen
A head case but his record was clean
Just the kind they were looking for

[Verse 4]
Carrie watched him through the crack
As they teased him behind his back
They called him Little Joe 'cause he scraped the ceiling
And when he was the worse for wear
She took him up the stair
Soon he fell for her brand of healing