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The Old Dirt Road

NOTE: Please read the first verse below and THEN press play (It just makes more sense that way!)

The Old Dirt Road

[To tell the story of the dirt road trail
It ain't for the weak and it ain't for the frail
It goes past the graveyard, heads straight out of town
Well I'll tell you the story, I'm heading on down
I'm cursed to travel and replay the tale
To warn other travellers but it aint worth jack
It's the dirt road lesson; you start over again
It circles around and bites your back
There isn't a switch that turns this band down
You get through the chorus and we're in the next town]

You sleep for a moment, you sleep for a week
Another day searching for the peace that you seek
A little of the dust slides off your boots with each step
A little more dust sticks to the back of your neck
The distant horizon runs further away
The fields and the mountains are all just bare clay
In the crackle of a fire you hear the words that you sought
A deal with the Devil for that lost dirt road chord
It's a hell of a ringer, it resolves everything
But the price that you're paying surely carries a sting

Seven miles down the old dirt road
Seven miles (more) and you’re still unbowed
Seven miles with a heavy load
Heaven smiles but it aint never told: (/but it's been foretold)
Save your soul
Save your soul
Save your soles for the old dirt, the old dirt road

[Sing it loud, let everyone hear
The crunch of the lonely on the old dirt road]

Cool drums @Rick-4-1
All other instruments, vocals, production Phil McWalter
[Additional BGV's and B-3 Hammond organ added 13.07.17]

© June 2017 Phil McWalter