Elijahs Church — текст песни (Steve Earle)

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