Decoration Day

Decoration Day Lyrics

Song Decoration Day
Artist Drive-By Truckers
Album Decoration Day
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[00:17.41] It's Decoration day
[00:21.00] An I'd a mind to roll a stone on his grave
[00:25.15] What would he say?
[00:28.86] Keeping me down, boy, won't keep you away
[00:33.43] It's Decoration day
[00:36.77] And I knew the hill boys would put it on away
[00:40.43] But my daddy wasn't afraid
[00:43.90] He said,
[00:44.49] "We'd fight till the last Lawson's last living day"
[00:48.85] I never knew how it all got started
[00:52.77] A problem with holland before we were born
[00:56.94] And I don't know the name of that boy we tied down
[01:00.89] And beat till he just couldn't walk anymore
[01:05.58] But I know the caliber in Daddy's chest
[01:09.50] I know what Holland Hill drives
[01:13.59] The State let him go, but I guess it was best
[01:18.17] 'Cause nobody needs all us Lawsons alive
[01:35.56] Daddy said one of the boys had come by
[01:39.26] The Lumber Man's favorite son
[01:43.17] He said,
[01:44.11] "Beat him real good but don't dare let him die
[01:47.85] And if you see holland Hill, run"
[01:51.96] Well, I said,
[01:53.27] "They ain't give us trouble before"
[01:56.44] An' we ain't brought down on ourselves
[02:00.35] But a chain on my back and my ear to the floor
[02:04.69] An' I'll send all the hill boys to hell
[02:08.85] I'll send all the hill boys to hell
[02:39.82] It's Decoration Day
[02:43.72] And I got a family in mobile bay
[02:47.90] And they never seen my daddy's grave
[02:51.98] But that don't bother me, it ain't marked anyway
[02:56.47] 'Cause I got dead brothers in lauderdale south
[03:00.71] And I got dead brothers in east tennessee
[03:05.08] My daddy got shot right in front of his house
[03:09.40] He had no one to fall on but me
[03:15.06] It's Decoration Day
[03:19.35] And I've got a mind to go spit on his grave
[03:22.36] If I was a hill,I'd have put him away
[03:26.81] And I'd fight till the last lawson's last living day
[03:31.12] I'd fight till the last lawson's last living day
[03:35.32] I'd fight till the last lawson's last living day
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