Decoration Day

Album: Decoration Day (2003)
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  • 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 you away"

    It's Decoration Day
    And I knew the Hill Boys would put him away
    But my Daddy wasn't afraid
    He said "We'd 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 'til 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 Lawson's 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 before
    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
    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 a mind to go spit on his grave
    If I was a Hill, I'd have put him away
    And I'd fight 'til the last Lawson's last living day
    I'd fight 'til the last Lawson's last living day
    I'd fight 'til the last Lawson's last living day Writer/s: Jason Isbell
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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