Steve Earle – Elijahs Church (Guitar)

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Elijah came to Texas

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To build his family a home

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With his wife and new baby

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And what little goods that they owned

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Had a good yoke of oxen

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And hand tools for clearing the land

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And he built him a church

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'Cause he was a God fearin' man

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All of his children when there

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Worshiped here through the years

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On down to my granddad

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He's buried 'bout 40 yards from here

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It's where I was baptized

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And where I took me a wife

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And if I have my say so

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That's where I'll rest when it's time

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When I'm dead and I'm gone

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In my daddy's home town

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'Cause Lord knows I'm some kind of sinner

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But I've done come this far

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And it's too late for changin'

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When this race has been run

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And let me return what I took from the ground

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When this body won't carry me no further

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Take me back

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And lay me down

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That old east Texas red dirt

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Won't grow much of nothin' they say

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'Cept tomatoes and peaches

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They mostly drill for oil nowadays

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And a hired hand named Regan

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First made me understand

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And he told me the red was the blood of my kin in the land

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When I'm dead and I'm gone

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In my daddy's home town

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Cause lord knows I'm some kinda sinner

         Em
But I've done come this far

         A
And it's too late for changing

         D
When tis race has been run

    Bm                   A
And let me return what I took from the ground

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When this body won't carry me no further

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Take me back

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And lay me down