Down Home-Josh Williams

[ti:Down Home] [ar:Josh Williams] [al:Down Home] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Down Home - Josh Williams [00:09.07]My granddad worked a sawmill wore his fingers to the bone [00:16.32]Making just enough to keep the family fed [00:24.12]But he never seemed to worry somehow they'd get along [00:31.98]Even though he knew they'd never get ahead [00:39.84]For forty some odd years he broke the same old piece of ground [00:46.89]And granny put up peas and corn and maize in jars [00:54.64]There was bread upon the table and love enough to go around [01:02.62]They never seemed to know this life was hard [01:09.87]Down home the willows weeping down home the river rolls [01:24.78]So long ago I wandered but the feelings never fade [01:37.32]And time cannot erase all the memories we made [01:44.87]Down home [01:48.37]Mom and daddy toiled countless hours [01:52.36]Just the way my grand folks did [01:56.10]And the common thread held us through thick and thin [02:03.95]Though I know they wanted better [02:07.62]Than the things they had to give [02:11.59]Looking back I don't think it could've been [02:18.89]Down home the cattle lowing down home the cotton hide [02:34.00]So long ago I wandered but the feelings never fade [02:46.41]And time cannot erase all the memories we made [02:53.80]Down home [02:58.20]I listen to the highway when my mama's words know mine [03:05.41]I was so sure a better life I'd find [03:12.90]Now as I'm staring at the madness racing twenty floors below [03:20.51]In my mind I turned back the years in gold [03:28.00]Down home a fires burning down home a fiddle plays [03:43.11]So long ago I wandered but the feelings never fade [03:55.55]And time cannot erase all the memories we made [04:04.72]Down home