Hard Land

from Hard Land by New House

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A nickle for the fishes that swim before my eyes
They're swimming in a pool that has gone all dry
Better get to heaven in the by-and-by, all right

Swear on what you want I trust this collar of gold
They're going to find your grave and scatter your bones
When the riverman comes you better pay his toll, all right

Take this pardon mine
Pass behind the lines

Little Gracie's gone and caught her death of cold
She's going to die of pneumonia before the week is old
Woman, quit your crying and let go your hold, all right

I'd bite the hand if it ever did feed us
Hunt you down if you ever did leave us
I won't curse the land because it never did need us, no

It's hard to say what's right
Make your run tonight

Here we slaughter and here we stand
Here we presume to stay God's hand
All the pesos to the lucky man
They're hard to hold in this hard land

Harnessed all my troubles to this rusty plow
And I drove 'em off the mountain with the family cow
Tore a new page in the here-and-now, all right

Had a little vision so I said a little prayer
Lord, take your curse off this old man's hair
There's a shooting in my future so I gotta prepare, all right

Days that won't unfold
In the prophet's beard foretold

Here we slaughter, etc.

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from Hard Land, released January 1, 2000

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