Take Em Away - Old Crow Medicine Show

Details

Description

🌈🦉Some BIRDS feathers are too BRIGHT to be CAGED.... 🎶

SPOTIFY- https://spoti.fi/2SoufSB

APPLE- https://apple.co/37ct7XH

This is my solo version of an Old Crow song written by my dear friend and former bandmate Critter Fuqua who is certainly one of the best songwriters in modern folk.

LYRICS-

Take em away, take em away Lord. Take away these chains from me. My heart is broken ‘cause my spirit’s not free. Lord take away these chains from me.

Some birds' feathers are too bright to be caged
I know I'm not that colorful but a bird just the same.
Open up your gate now, let me put down my load, so I can feel at ease and go back onto my home.

Sun beatin' down, my legs can't seem to stand, there's a boss man at the turnrow with a rifle in his hand. I’ve got nine children, nothin' in the pan
My wife she died hungry while I was plowin' land.

Can't see when I go to work, can't see when I get off, now how do you expect a poor man not to get lost? Every year I’m getting deeper in debt
If there's a happy day Lord, I haven't seen one yet.

Land that I love is the land that I'm workin'
But it's hard to love it all the time when your back is a-hurtin’. I’m gettin' too old now to push this here plow, please let me lay down so I can look at the clouds.

Land that I know is where two rivers collide
The Brazos the Navajo and the big blue sky.
Flood plains, freight trains, watermelon vines
Of any place on God's green earth, this is where I choose to die.