| Donkey Town |
| Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris |
| I've been around in Donkey Town |
| Too long baby too long |
| Checking out of Donkey Town |
| So long, so long, so long |
| Her pretty eyes are pretty still |
| But Jim's got a kind of a squint Yeah |
| I dug up my last check from out of the mine |
| Now I feel like I've done my stint |
| Jim got an army pension |
| When he walked from the military court |
| No body ever mentioned |
| The medical report |
| She does little things for me |
| She likes to get the both of us high. Yeah |
| She says I'm a tender-hearted man |
| Prince charming, yeah, sure, I'm the guy |
| He likes the wrecker's dogs on chains |
| And the smoke from the company fires |
| Diesel oil in the trucks and cranes |
| And the smell of burning tires |
| But I've been around in Donkey Town |
| Too long, baby, too long |
| Checking out of Donkey Town |
| So long, so long, so long |
| Solo(Guitar) |
| There's a purple heart in a silver tin |
| And a grey .45 in a drawer |
| Most of the time you can drink with him |
| But some other time he's just sore |
| On days when she says she can't think straight |
| Or she feels like she's getting the jumps |
| She'll go shoot off her .38 |
| At cans on a Donkey Town dump |
| It was Friday late and she crossed those legs |
| She told me flat out she would. Yeah |
| If I could pull up my trailer pegs |
| We could get away together for good |
| I sure wish her the best of luck |
| She's going to need it thinking of Jim |
| I don't like to leave her stuck |
| But she's near as bad as him |
| But I've been around in Donkey Town |
| Too long baby too long |
| Checking out of Donkey Town |
| So long, so long, so long |
| Checking out of Donkey Town |
| So long, so long, so long |