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Yazoo Clay | Mississippi

from A Song For Every State by Travis Ehrenstrom

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I came to life in the heat of July
As crooked as a waning moon
Pa left home when ma got scared
A crop came in too soon

So I was on my own at an early age
Just old enough to be employed
I took my hand to the riverboat man
The bonafide St. Louis

I always rest deep into the water now

If it ain’t easy, let it roll
Let it wind on down the road
Straight into the night let it call you on

The dream took me to finer things
To rambling men counting cards
The finest wears the smoke in the air
Yeah I was a rising star

But the fight it came to the cotton kings
The Mississippi painted red
The delta knew which side they’d choose
But I became a Union Man

My life for that freewheeling river bank

If it ain’t easy, let it roll
Let it wind on down the road
Straight into the night let it call you on

Vicksburg there was fire and flame
Ash it rained across the sky
They say the south was broken then
Freed from an evil tide

Bury my bones in a hole in the fields
Deep inside the yazoo clay
I’m as stubborn as the ground in Jackson county
Out beyond my family place

If it ain’t easy, let it roll
Let it wind on down the road
Straight into the night let it call you on

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from A Song For Every State, released June 25, 2019

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