Elijah came to Texas
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To build his family a home
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With his wife and new baby
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And what little goods that they owned
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Had a good yoke of oxen
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And hand tools for clearing the land
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And he built him a church
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'Cause he was a God fearin' man
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All of his children when there
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Worshiped here through the years
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On down to my granddad
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He's buried 'bout 40 yards from here
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It's where I was baptized
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And where I took me a wife
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And if I have my say so
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That's where I'll rest when it's time
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chorus:
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When I'm dead and I'm gone
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Won't you carry me home
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To that little white church
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In my daddy's home town
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'Cause Lord knows I'm some kind of sinner
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But I've done come this far
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And it's too late for changin'
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When this race has been run
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Take me back where I came from
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And let me return what I took from the ground
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When this body won't carry me no further
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Take me back
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And lay me down
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This east Texas red dirt
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Won't grow much of nothin' they say
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'Cept tomatoes and peaches
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They mostly drill for oil nowadays
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And a hired hand named Regan
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First made me understand
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And he told me the red was the blood of my kin in the land
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chorus
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Elijah's Church
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| Steve Earle |
