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David Olney
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My name is Josiah
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I've come down to the river
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I don't care to see what's behind me
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I've traveled alone
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I'm a long ways from home
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There's no need for you to remind me
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The past I once had's
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Gone rotten, gone bad
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There's no loving smile to console me
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Well, the future's unknown
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But back there at home
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There's no one now left to hold me
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My days once flew by
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Like the geese in the sky
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Flying high over Avery County
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In our little mountain home
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I never felt alone
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It was me and Mama and Daddy
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Daddy worked now and then
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Odd jobs for a friend
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But he made most his money off moonshine
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We barely had enough
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But we always had love
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I never went to sleep hungry or crying
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Daddy left home one night
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With a load of white lightnin'
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Said he was heading for Charlotte
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But he never got that far
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Him and his car
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Crashed halfway down Kimbrough Mountain
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That left Mama and me
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Living off charity
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And what little Daddy had left us
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And pretty soon the bank
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Was breathing down our necks
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Saying they was going to evict us
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Well a man come around
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He'd just moved to town
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He started sweet talking Mama
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At the end of her rope
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She'd 'bout given up hope
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She believed when he promised to love her
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He preached and he roared
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Like a man of the Lord
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His message was Hell and Damnation
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When I stood in-between
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My mother and him
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He said, "Your boy here's in need of salvation."
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With his high holy ways
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He treated me like a slave
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Said I was born of the Devil
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He beat me til I bled
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Then he left me for dead
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His eyes shining wicked and evil
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Well I ran off that night
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In the autumn moonlight
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I could hear Mama crying for mercy
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I found a boat by the river
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I got in and untied her
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To the sound of his unholy cursing
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Long as this river flows
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I reckon I'll go
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Til it runs out into the sea
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If he follows me there
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I'll kill him I swear
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He's got no more power over me
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If my Mama were alive
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I'd tell her goodbye
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I'll see her someday way up yonder
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Now the sun's going down
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To the river I'm bound
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Fare thee well Avery County
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Now the sun's going down
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To the river I'm bound
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Fare thee well Avery County
David Olney at 30A Songwriters Festival ...
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