Scarecrow In The Garden-Chris Stapleton

[ti:Scarecrow In The Garden] [ar:Chris Stapleton] [al:Scarecrow In The Garden] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Scarecrow In The Garden - Chris Stapleton [00:09.22]Written by：Chris Stapleton/Brice Long/Matt Fleener [00:18.44]Well he came from Northern Ireland [00:22.20]Searching for the free man's ground [00:26.14]And he came to bet his fortune [00:30.11]On a west virginia plow [00:38.56]He built a house of timber [00:42.20]And raised a redhead son [00:46.22]Then they worked the land together [00:49.96]And prayed the rain would come [00:56.12]There's a scarecrow in the garden [00:59.84]That looks like lucifer [01:03.98]And I've been reading revelations [01:07.71]With my bare feet in the river [01:29.55]Well the redhead's son got older [01:33.48]And took a brown eyed wife [01:37.21]And the fields were green as dollars [01:40.93]Cause the dirt was black as night [01:47.31]I came in late September [01:50.96]The youngest one of three [01:54.85]And my sisters off and married [01:58.77]So the land was left to me [02:04.40]There's a scarecrow in the garden [02:08.42]That looks like lucifer [02:12.50]And I've been reading revelations [02:16.72]With my bare feet in the river [02:22.34]I know every single fencepost [02:26.09]Every rock that goes around [02:30.03]I've been staring at the red oak [02:33.91]Where I know they'll lay me down [02:40.40]The fields ain't what they once were [02:44.32]The rains just seem to flood [02:48.03]And I've been thinking about that river [02:51.87]Wondering how it turned to blood [02:58.14]I've been sitting here all morning [03:02.05]I was sitting here all night [03:06.25]There's a bible in my left hand [03:10.46]And a pistol in my right