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Ballad of William Sycamore Lyrics by Steve Young

Seven Bridges Road (1981 Version)

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[Intro]
And some are wrapped in the linen so fine
And some like a godling's scion
But I was cradled on the twigs of pine
Down a lonesome mountain line
[Verse 1]
I lost my boyhood and found my wife
A girl like a Salem clipper
A woman as straight as a hunting knife
With eyes as bright as the Dipper
We cleared our camps where the buffalo feed
Unheard of streams were our flagons
And I sowed my sons like apple seed
On the trail of the western wagons
[Verse 2]
They were right, tight boys, never sulky or slow
A fruitful, goodly muster
The eldest died at the Alamo
And the youngest fell with Custer
A letter that told it burned my hand
And I smiled and said, "So be it"
But I couldn't live where they fenced my land
You know it broke my heart to see it
I saddled the red, unbroken colt
And rode him into the day there
And he threw me down like a thunderbolt
And rolled on me as I lay there
[Verse 3]
Now I lie in the heart of the fat, black soil
Like the seed of a prairie thistle
It has washed my bones with honey and oil
And picked them as clean as a whistle
And my youth returns, like the rains of spring
My sons, like the wild geese are flying
And I lie and I hear the meadowlark sing
And there's much content in my dying
Go play with the towns you have built out of blocks
The towns where you might have bound me
I'll sleep in my earth like a tired red fox
And my buffalo have found me
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About “Ballad of William Sycamore” by Steve Young

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"Ballad of William Sycamore" appears on "Seven Bridges Road (1981 Version)".

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