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Steve Earle - Elijah's Church Lyrics

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  • 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
  • Hes buried bout 40 yards from here
  • Its where I was baptized
  • And where I took me a wife
  • And if I have my say so
  • Thats where Ill rest when its time
  • Chorus:
  • When Im dead and Im gone
  • Wont you carry me home
  • To that little white church
  • In my daddys home town
  • cause lord knows Im some kind of sinner
  • But Ive done come this far
  • And its 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 wont carry me no further
  • Take me back
  • And lay me down
  • This east texas red dirt
  • Wont 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
  • Chorus

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