In the 2021 release of Roll the Bones X, a booklet that came with the vinyl copy contained a paragraph for each of the songs on RTBX. For “Unlucky Skin”, Shakey Graves wrote,
My friend Blind Boy Paxton referred to the banjo as the ‘most human instrument in the world.’ You can put one together by yo...
[Intro]
(Fuck)
[Verse 1]
Life tasted sweet when I was the bad twin
Devil himself sat waving me by
All of my tattoos, they were of no use
No monetary values have I
[Chorus]
Ooh, won't be long 'til I belong
[Verse 2]
Bird at my window tells me tomorrow
Mean old tornado carries me off
Pulls me from bed and bashes my head in
Buries me halfway across the globe
[Chorus]
Ooh, won't be long 'til I belong
Without all of this unlucky skin
[Chorus]
Ooh, won't be long 'til I belong
Without all of that unlucky skin
[Verse 3]
Think of me often, loosen my coffin
Let all the bugs in my wooden home
[Chorus]
Ooh, won't be long 'til I belong
Without all of this unlucky skin
Unlucky Skin was written by Shakey Graves.