Lyrics:
He moves efficiently
Beyond security
Great opportunity awaits
Airport fluorescent
Creature of habit
Labored breathing and shallow skin
Recycled
a good old American guest
Yes I want to live on the land that
I've loved and I've labored for
And spend a few days headed west
I'm longing to ride
There's where this old darky's heart am long to go.
There's where I labored so hard for old massa,
Day after day in the fields of yellow corn,
No place
and I've labored for
And spend a few days headed west
She labored so hard in this world below she didn't have things that most mothers know
Raising her children on a widow's small pay washing
There's where the darkey's heart am longed to go.
There's where I labored so hard for old massa,
Day after day in the field of yellow corn,
No place
There's where the old darke'ys heart am long'd to go,
There's where I labored so hard for old massa,
Day after day in the field of yellow corn,
No place
The next thing she told me
Was, "The caboose is off the track."
For days and nights I labored
To get it back with the train
All was ready for
Cannonball
I loved this girl so dearly so
I fixed the whistle back
The next thing she told me was
The cabooses off of the track
But days and nights a labored
nineteen
He was the bravest union man
That I have ever seen
Harry Simms was a palomine
We labored side by side
Expecting to be shot on sight
Or taken for
age was nineteen
He was the bravest union man, that I have ever seen
Harry Simms was a palomine, we labored side by side
Expecting to be shot
nights, we've labored to exhaustion
'Way, haul away, well, haul away, Joe
But now the breeze is from the East, we'll come about for Boston
'Way, haul away,
A still life on a floor filled half-full
With dirty clothes, meaning, garbage and smoke
Labored and slow and somehow real
None of it moves
forefathers and I say
About their courage
For they spoke a foreign language
And they labored with theirs hands
The same way you did, my friend
So
She labored so hard in this world below
She didn't have things that most mothers know
Raising her children on a widow's small pay
Washing and ironing
your hand
Through this life we've labored hard to earn our meager fare
It's brought us trembling hands and failing eyes
So I'll just rest here
These fatal fantasies
Giving way to labored breath, takin' all of me
We've already done it in my head
If it's make-believe
Why does it feel like a vow
Twenty some odd years ago a drunkard down in Memphis
Lost a month of life and labored to the county jail
Just because he asked a little green eyed girl
In the beautiful hills in the midst of Roane Country
It's there that I labored my whole life away
It's there that my heart is a-turnin' most ever
See the fields of sweat and tears
Where we labored in love
We cursed the wind and we prayed for rain
But never thought of giving it up
Oh, down
sweet in the springtime
There's where the old darke'ys heart am long'd to go
There's where I labored so hard for old massa
Day after day in the field
There's where the old darke'ys heart am long'd to go,
There's where I labored so hard for old massa,
Day after day in the field of yellow corn,
No place
sweet in the springtime
There's where the old darke'ys heart am long'd to go
There's where I labored so hard for old massa
Day after day in the field
There's where the old darke'ys heart am long'd to go,
There's where I labored so hard for old massa,
Day after day in the field of yellow corn,
No place
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