Long Summer Day-Two Gallants

[ti:Long Summer Day] [ar:Two Gallants] [al:What The Toll Tells] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.29]Long Summer Day - Two Gallants [00:01.60]Written by：Vogel Stephens [00:02.93] [00:24.21]Well the summer day make a white man lazy [00:27.37] [00:34.45]Well all I've ever known is poor [00:36.16] [00:36.76]Owe my skin to the country store [00:38.24] [00:38.76]Throw my walls my roof my door [00:40.46] [00:41.29]But he tells me I'm free [00:42.48] [00:43.86]But I fight the will to live [00:45.04] [00:46.09]Hell might take but heaven gives [00:47.42] [00:47.96]It's the only one so I'll forgive [00:49.30] [00:50.34]And I'm not the one to grieve [00:51.74] [00:52.58]And the summer day make a white man lazy [00:55.01] [00:57.70]He sits on his porch killing time [00:59.66] [01:02.13]I gotta work to feed my wife and baby [01:04.43] [01:06.86]I work so god damn hard that it's a crime [01:09.11] [01:11.28]Well I went down to the polling place [01:13.35]The white men there just laughed in my face [01:14.97] [01:15.58]Saying boy this ain't no nigger's race [01:18.00]You best get on your way [01:19.26] [01:20.46]Sir I believe I've got the right [01:22.27]Said you ain't got nothing if you ain't white [01:24.35] [01:24.93]And I thought I said get out of sight [01:26.64] [01:27.20]Well what was I to say [01:28.59] [01:29.31]And the summer day make a white man lazy [01:31.83] [01:34.37]He sits on his porch killing time [01:36.35] [01:38.88]I gotta work to feed my wife and baby [01:41.17] [01:43.37]I work so god damn hard that it's a crime [01:45.72] [01:47.99]When I was 'bout the age of five [01:49.69] [01:50.31]Watched my daddy burned alive [01:51.61] [01:52.32]They cut him low and they hung him high [01:54.85]Swayin' in the breeze [01:55.97] [01:57.50]The last words I heard him say [01:58.76] [01:59.45]Before they stole his life that day [02:00.78] [02:01.46]Was forgive them lord they gone astray [02:03.05] [02:03.81]Now take me to my knees [02:05.32] [02:06.08]And the summer day make a white man lazy [02:08.43] [02:11.09]He sits on his porch killing time [02:13.02] [02:15.40]But the summer day make a nigger feel crazy [02:18.49] [02:20.30]Might make me do something out of line [02:22.45] [02:43.29]Well I don't know but I heard tell [02:45.39]Of a fungus below a place called hell [02:47.57]And who would catch me if I fell [02:49.30] [02:50.07]Who would pray for me [02:51.10] [02:52.56]But one thing I see for sure [02:53.86] [02:54.66]It's hot as hell up here I know [02:56.01] [02:56.60]And the devil lives right down the road [02:58.33] [02:58.97]It's all the same to me [03:00.17] [03:00.70]And a summer day make a white man feel lazy [03:04.64] [03:06.20]He sits on his porch killing time [03:08.19] [03:10.41]But the summer day make a nigger feel crazy [03:13.39] [03:15.28]Might make me do something out of line [03:17.27] [03:19.49]But if you should see my wife [03:21.22]Tell her that I won't be home tonight [03:23.15] [03:24.19]So don't leave on the light [03:25.47] [03:26.50]I got a little business down the road [03:28.85] [03:31.21]And if I'm dead by sunrise [03:32.61] [03:33.17]Kiss my baby girl for me [03:34.58] [03:35.53]It ain't life if it ain't free [03:37.24] [03:38.04]I got a mighty buggin' to one love [03:42.79] [04:40.08]Well the summer day well the summer day [04:44.14] [04:46.38]Well the summer day make a white man lazy [04:50.37] [04:51.59]Well the summer day