Elijah`s Church — текст песни (Steve Earle)

Elijah came to Texas
To build his family a home
With his wife and new baby
And what little goods that they owned
Had a good yoke of oxen
And hand tools for clearing the land
And he built him a church
`Cause he was a God fearin` man

All of his children when there
Worshiped here through the years
On down to my granddad
He`s buried `bout 40 yards from here
It`s where I was baptized
And where I took me a wife
And if I have my say so
That`s where I`ll rest when it`s time

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When I`m dead and I`m gone
Won`t you carry me home
To that little white church
In my daddy`s home town
`Cause Lord knows I`m some kind of sinner
But I`ve done come this far
And it`s too late for changin`
When this race has been run
Take me back where I came from
And let me return what I took from the ground
When this body won`t carry me no further
Take me back
And lay me down

This east Texas red dirt
Won`t grow much of nothin` they say
`Cept tomatoes and peaches
They mostly drill for oil nowadays
And a hired hand named Regan
First made me understand
And he told me the red was the blood of my kin in the land

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