Lyrics:
Old Kentucky river
'Cross the county line
Through the morning sunshine
You flow to Caroline
Old Kentucky river
I recall a time
On your bank
Like this old Kentucky river
Running deep within my veins
Sending prayers up above
For the ones who's gone away
Yea My minds in constant battle
Trying
only through enlightenment
A dense and shady crop, weed
It exists in almost every city
And hamlet in the country
In the Old Kentucky River Mill
Kentucky river flowing down
Covered by the woven crown
The one that rests upon your head
Chevy pickup painted red
These words you say are evil
I was raised up poor without no runnin water
I dipped my bath out of the well behind my house
I spend most of my time by the ol Kentucky River
I'm
Pounding down Rainiers at the end of a lonely pier
The water looks so refreshing
Try to take a swim, only to find your drowning in
The Kentucky river
up her chest
Bleeding down between her knees
Rivers in Kentucky flow
Between the bluegrass wavy seas
But oh, Margery
Twists the knife once more
rattling old bones"
This highway is long but I know some that are longer
By sunup tomorrow I guess I'll be home
Through the hills of Kentucky 'cross
her chest
Bleeding down between her knees
Rivers in Kentucky flow
Between the bluegrass wavy seas
But oh, Margery
Twists the knife once more inside
Tears are flowing like the rivers that run
Carrying away a song that never got sung
Leaves me feeling empty all I left undone
Wish I knew you Kentucky
Oh
The Wild
Gabe Lee
Paper Bag, Kentucky Rain
River Town, Street Parade
There's a gray sunrise on the interstate
Far away eyes and license plates
Left
guess
To leave me here alone
Drinkin' myself half to death
I'm gonna drink Kentucky dry
And drown in whiskey river 'til I die
You can call the undertaker
Kentucky where the river boats sink
Living down there makes any man think
You never know what you got 'til it's gone
So wherever I go I'll think to myself
of Jordan
Carrying the lost sons home
It’s that muddy river Kentucky
Sent to strip us to the bone
And I know it ain’t my place to question
But sometimes I ask
On the bank of a Tennessee River
In a small Kentucky town
I drew my first breath one cold November morning
And before my feet even touched the ground
the morning just dumb as hell
I get reminded every day that I'm dumb as hell
They say don't do nothing stupid but I might as well
Swimming in this river
Transitions and names mean nothing, so choose
Simplify me, don't deny me
That river bourbon Kentucky, confide in me
Oh
Ah, ah, oh, woah
Ah, ah, oh, woah
belt
The Cumberland River to the eastern hills
Sun's going down on tobacco fields in Kentucky
Where the sweat on your brow and your calloused hands
Is
bottles of booze
Because I got those Western Kentucky Blues
It's a dying part
Black river through my heart
When I got those Western Kentucky Blues
Because
me
She loves me and she knows where I am Kentucky you are my motherland
Say hello to the rivers and the trees oh it's got to be Kentucky for me
[
weeks overdue
You called to say you were leaving
That Kentucky was half away
I love this old river town but I never meant to stay
I've been waiting
and the hills of my Kentucky Home
A little house in the bend of the river
The sky and the grass are so blue
Lend a helping hand 'cause your neighbors are givers
When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often
"We Got Mountains"
words and music © Grant Maloy Smith
From the album APPALACHIA: AMERICAN STORIES
You'll never see the ocean from Kentucky
You'll
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