Decoration Day letra

It's decoration day
And I've a mind to roll a stone on his grave
But what would he say
Keeping me down, boy, won't keep me away

It's decoration day
And I knew the hill boys would put us away
But my daddy wasn't afraid
He said: We'll fight till the last Lawson's last living day

I never knew how it all got started
A problem with holland before we were born
And I don't know the name of that boy we tied down
And beat till he just couldn't walk anymore
But I know the caliber in daddy's chest
And I know what holland hill drives
The state let him go, but I guess it was best
Cause nobody needs all us lawsons alive

Daddy said one of the boys had come by
The lumber man's favorite son
He said: Beat him real good, but don't dare let him die
And if you see holland hill run
Now I said: They ain't give us trouble no more
That we ain't brought down on ourselves
But a chain on my back and my ear to the floor
And I'll send all the hill boys to hell

It's decoration day
And I've got a family in Mobile Bay
And they've never seen my daddy's grave
But that don't bother me, it ain't marked anyway
'Cause I got dead brothers in Lauderdale south
And I got dead brothers in east Tennessee
My daddy got shot right in front of his house
He had noone to fall on but me

It's decoration day
And I've got a mind to go spit on his grave
If I was a hill, I'd have put him away
And I'd fight till the last Lawson's last living day
I'd fight till the last Lawson's last living day
I'd fight till the last Lawson's last living day

Drive By Truckers - Letras

• 72 (this Highway's Mean)
• A Blessing And A Curse
• A World Of Hurt
• Aftermath USA
• Angels And Fuselage
• Baggage
• Birmingham
• Box of Spiders
• Bulldozers and Dirt
• Buttholeville
• Careless
• Carl Perkins' Cadillac
• Cassie's Brother
• Cottenseed
• Daddy Learned To Fly
• Daddy's Cup
• Danko / Manuel
• Darkened Flags On The Cusp Of Dawn
• Daylight
• Days Of Graduation
• Dead, Drunk, And Naked
• Decoration Day
• Demonic Possesion
• Demonic Possession
• Do It Yourself
• Easy On Yourself
• Ever South
• Feb. 14
• Filthy And Fried
• First Air Of Autumn
• Goddamn Lonely Love
• Goodbye
• Grand Canyon
• Gravity's Gone
• Greenville To Baton Rouge
• Guitar Man Upstairs
• Guns Of Umpqua
• Hanging On
• Hearing Jimmy Loud
• Heathens
• Hell No, I Ain't Happy
• Kinky Hypocrite
• Late For Church
• Let There Be Rock
• Life In The Factory
• Like A Rolling Stone
• Little Bonnie
• Loaded Gun In The Closet
• Lookout Mountain
• Love Like This
• Made Up English Oceans
• Margo and Harold
• Marry Me
• Moved
• Mrs. Dubose
• My Sweet Annette
• Natural Light
• Never Gunna Change
• Nine Bullets
• Once They Banned Imagine
• One of These Days
• Outfit
• Panties In Your Purse
• Pauline Hawkins
• Plastic Flowers On The Highway
• Play It All Night Long
• Primer Coat
• Putting People On The Moon
• Ramon Casiano
• Rebels
• Road Cases
• Ronnie and Neil
• Sandwiches For The Road
• Shit Shots Count
• Shut Up And Get On The Plane
• Sink Hole
• Sounds Better In The Song
• Space City
• Steve McQueen
• Sun Don't Shine
• Surrender Under Protest
• Tails Facing Up
• The Boys From Alabama
• The Buford Stick
• The Company I Keep
• The Day John Henry Died
• The Deeper In
• The Living Bubba
• The Night G.G. Allen Came to Town
• The Night G.g. Allin Came To Town
• The part Of Him
• The President's Penis is Missing
• The Righteous Path
• The Sands Of Iwo Jima
• The Southern Thing
• The Three Great Alabama Icons
• Til He's Dead Or Rising
• Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)
• Tornadoes
• Two Daughters And a Beautiful Wife
• Uncle Frank
• Used To Be a Cop
• Wallace
• Wednesday
• What It Means
• When He's Gone
• When The Pin Hits The Shell
• When The Well Runs Dry
• When Walter Went Crazy
• Where The Devil Don't Stay
• Why Henry Drinks
• Wife Beater
• Women Without Whiskey
• Your Daddy Hates Me
• Zip City
• Zoloft