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Lonnie Glass
Dirt Road
Acoustic/Americana
song created
Monday, March 22, 2021 8:55:32 PM
song updated
Monday, March 22, 2021 8:55:32 PM
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American Son Radio
ROOT FM - a Desperado Revue station
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Music by Lonnie Glass
Lyrics by Norman Ball& Lonnie Glass
copyright, 2010 SOCAN
The great dirt roads stretched on in ALL directions for those returning home anfter the great conflict. In the South it was to the end of their society and thecontinuation of Federal troops for the next 12 years.
Sea of Gray marched back to Georgia
Waves of Blue marched north toward Maine
hollow eyes in blood-stained soldiers
two great sides feel one great pain
now that the war is ended
politicians seek the prize
carpetbagger's fill their bag of tricks
with all those reconstructed lies.
chorus:
we are travellers on the same dirt road
we're all searchin' for our home
lay our muskets on our front porch floor
ain't gonna be fightin' no more
My wife swears there's a difference
a new darkness in my eyes
to my young boy i am a stranger
i sit alone at night and cry
still those Federals gonna stay here
10 years longer, maybe more
gets this old Gray boy to thinkin'
what the hell was all that fightin' for
we are travellers on the same dirt road
we're all searchin' for our home
lay our muskets on our front porch floor
ain't gonna be fightin' no more
bridge
I can never plant a meadow
or cast a barley seed
without the haunting knowing
that I've made my brothers bleed
every year now in Springtime
we gather round try to recall
we share our stories about battles
try to make sense of it all
so many young boys were the fallen
wonderin' how we missed their fate
forgiveness brings redemption
the key that opens up those gates
we are travellers on the same dirt road
we're all searchin' for our home
lay our muskets on our front porch floor
ain't gonna be fightin' no more x
Song Comments
American Son Radio
Diggin Dirt Road man
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