Song Description

IN PROGRESS (rough demo) A song about working and how it can make you weary, but joyful.

Lyrics

(verse 1)
I was born with a shovel
I came out with a piece of rope
I hit the ground in leather boots
For dyin? rich I could never hope

I been building fence all day
I been buckin? bales of hay
I?ll be diggin? ditch ?til I?m old and gray
And while I?m diggin? I will say:

(chorus:)
Yodelayee odeloo Yodelayee odeloo
Yodelayee odeloo ooh ooh ooh ooh

(verse 2)
I offered up a sacrifice of blood
On the barbed wire altar of the fencing gods
From sinew to callous to steel to stone
I pray my point will find it?s home

A quarter mile on a good day
Of settin? posts in the hot sun ray
Keep them cows in and make ?em stay
And while I?m diggin? I will say:

(repeat chorus)

(verse 3)
It may rain in Nashville
But here, there?s only dust
But that dusty cloud has a silver lining:
We don?t get much rust

Water will go where you tell it to go
If you learn to talk with a shovel
To make that winter hay grow high
Will bend your back near double

(bridge)
God, I?m in love with the rocks
and the dirt and the dust on this land
You?ll all have to wait ?til I die
To pry this shovel from my hands

(repeat chorus)