Transamerica movie - Take 'Em Away lyrics

rate me

Song by Old Crow Medicine Show<br /><br>

(Chorus:)<br>

Take ‘em away, take ‘em away, Lord <br>

Take away these chains from me <br>

My heart is broken ‘cause my spirit’s not free <br>

Lord take away these chains from me <br>

<br>

Some birds’ feathers are too bright to be caged <br>

I know I’m not that colorful but a bird just the same <br>

Open up your gate now, let me put down my load <br>

So I can feel at ease and go back to my home <br>

<br>

(Chorus)<br>

<br>

Sun beatin’ down, my legs can’t seem to stand <br>

There’s a boss man at a turnrow with a rifle in his hand <br>

I’ve got nine child, nothin’ in the pan <br>

My wife she died hungry while I was plowin’ land <br>

<br>

(Chorus)<br>

<br>

Can’t see when I go to work, can’t see when I get off <br>

How do you expect a man not to get lost <br>

Every year I just keep getting deeper in debt <br>

If there’s a happy day, Lord, I haven’t seen one yet <br>

<br>

(Chorus)<br>

<br>

Land that I love is the land that I’m workin’ <br>

But it’s hard to love it all the time when your back is a-hurtin’ <br>

Gettin’ too old now to push this here plow <br>

Please let me lay down so I can look at the clouds <br>

<br>

(Chorus)<br>

<br>

Land that I know is where two rivers collide <br>

The Brazos the Navaso and the big blue sky <br>

Flood plains, freight trains, watermelon vines <br>

Of any place on God’s green earth, this is where I choose to die <br>

<br>

(Chorus)<br>

<br>