My Father's Father

Album: Barton Hollow (2011)
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  • I hear something hanging on the wind
    I see black smoke up around the bend
    I've got my ticket and I'm going to go home
    The leaves have changed a time or two
    Since the last time a train came through
    I've got my ticket and I'm going to go home

    My Father's father's blood is on the track
    A sweat refrain drifts in from the past
    I've got my ticket and I'm going to go home
    The winding roads they led me here
    Burn like coal and dry like tears
    So here's my hope
    My tired soul
    And here's my ticket I want to go home
    Home, home, home Writer/s: JOHN WHITE, JOY WILLIAMS
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Spirit Music Group
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  • Lisa from Eveleth, Mni love the civil wars!!! i sing and rock my three month old son to sleep by them. we both especially love "tracks in the snow" .
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