[00:22.47]Look out Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river
[00:30.22]With a big red beacon, and a flag, and a man on the rail
[00:36.71]I think you'd better call John,
[00:39.65]'cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail
[00:45.10]And it's less than a mile away
[00:49.03]I hope they didn't come to stay
[00:52.66]It's got numbers on the side and a gun
[00:55.62]And it's makin' big waves
[01:08.12]Daddy's gone, my brother's out hunting in the mountains
[01:15.32]Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmy-Lou
[01:22.58]So the powers that be left me here to do the thinking
[01:29.82]And I just turned twenty-two
[01:33.79]I was wonderin' what to do
[01:37.89]The closer they got, the more those feelings grew
[02:40.29]Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassuring
[02:46.90]He told me, red means run son, numbers add up to nothing
[02:54.44]But when the first shot hit the dock, I saw it coming
[03:01.85]Raised my rifle to my eye
[03:06.23]Never stopped to wonder why
[03:10.24]Then I saw black and my face splashed in the sky
[04:08.43]Shelter me from the powder and the finger
[04:15.93]Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger
[04:23.03]Just think of me as one you'd never figure
[04:30.18]Would fade away so young
[04:34.41]With so much left undone
[04:38.44]Remember me to my love,
[04:40.81]I know I'll miss her