Lyric discussion by thujone 

Well, it seems like this guy who's been drinking a lot of wine (box of Red Belle Dame?) and taking pills (Benny Jag Blue) went for ride in his sportscar and either crashed in the sugar cane and died or caused some accident where he's now going to jail. It seems like Big Black Mariah is a hearse, but Wikipedia says a Black Maria is a paddywagon. And one commenter below mentions that hearses are never Ford. So I think it's a man who's committed some crimes and got caught out in the countryside, and the paddywagon with its ladder and hammer to the floor done come take him away for good. He'll be wearing a wooden coat, meaning he'll probably be executed and put in a wooden coffin.

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