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WKY

from American Highways [Digital Download] by Ben Knight and the Welldiggers

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When I die bury me in West Kentucky
Float my bones down the Ohio.
Lay my stone 'neath the willow tree in front of Mom and Daddy's
Take me back, oh, take me home.

When i lay me down to sleep, I can't help but dream of home
Broken dirt 'neath my feet and that old familiar song
"Oh, the sun shines bright" and my memories linger on
Take me back, where I belong.

Miss my sister and my nephew, my brother and my niece,
The smell of my mother cooking and that Green River breeze.
I should be fishing with my father, instead of dying in these streets.
Take me back, oh Lord, make me free.

When I die bury me in West Kentucky
Float my bones down the Ohio.
Lay my stone 'neath the willow tree in front of Mom and Daddy's
Take me back, oh, take me home.
Take me back, oh, take me home.

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from American Highways [Digital Download], released April 19, 2015

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