
Date of issue: 31.12.2014
Record label: Concord
Song language: English
Back Road Into Town |
I asked Mama many times |
What kept Papa so far behind |
What in the world was holding my Daddy down? |
Papa always dropped his head |
Lord, he seemed so afraid |
Like he was carryin' a heavy burden all the time |
There was a man up in the big house |
But Papa was afraid to speak out |
The man kept my Daddy’s nose right on the ground |
Girl, your Papa he was mighty good |
He was doin' the best he could |
All his life he lived just for you |
But twelve kids, he had a heavy load |
He couldn’t walk the front road |
On his face he always wore a frown |
It was for you and the others too |
He was tryin' to make it through |
He had to take the back road into town |
Every year your Papa would say |
«Next year, we gonna move away |
I wanna take my children away from here» |
He said «I've almost lost my fear |
I think I see my way clear |
I’m gonna take a stand and be a man» |
But then the man would come from the big house |
Daddy would always back out |
And end right up again behind the plow |
But twelve kids, he had a heavy load |
He couldn’t walk the front road |
On his face he always wore a frown |
It was for you and the others too |
He was tryin' to make it through |
He had to take the back road into town |
When he finally made up his mind |
Your Daddy had wasted too much time |
Your Papa just put it off a little too long |
'Cause all the years that Papa was sleepin' |
Father Time kept right on creepin' |
'Til it was time for him to lay his body down |
He did it all against his will |
He got lost back in them fields |
My Daddy never made it into town |
Twelve kids, he had a heavy load |
He couldn’t walk the front road |
On his face he always wore a frown |
It was for you and the others too |
He was tryin' to make it through |
He had to take the back road into town |
Mmm, twelve kids, he had a heavy load |
He couldn’t walk the front road |
On his face he always wore a frown |
It was for you and the others too |
He was tryin' to make it through |
He had to take the back road into town |
Ohh twelve kids, he had a heavy load |
He couldn’t walk the front road |
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