Decoration Day

	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 no one 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.