John Henry's Farm - Ghostrain
  1. Georgia
  2. Locked Door Blues
  3. Rain Dance
  4. Prison Letter
  5. Brother
  6. Llama
  7. Kentucky Mountains
  8. Railine
  9. Addiction
  10. Reverence
  11. Ghostrain
  12. L.P.
  13. Yellow Cuckoo

Georgia

Its a long tall feeling that Im wonderin
Long ol way to the back of my head
Its a long way back to Georgia
So Ill lay here in my ol bed
Its a long tall feeling that you left me
While I was away
Still a long way back to Georgia
So Ill be right on my ol way
Long lonesome feelin that you left me
I try to keep right in my ol head
An Ill hitch on outto Georgia
Leave the love to you thats dead
Where the dove on the ground is hoppin
Wings are weak cant fly too high
Shell know to jump when she is hand held
Lifted up right twords the sky
Long for that feelin when I rise up
On out there believin in my way
Cant be locked up here much longer
On that day Ill fly away
Since those days that you left me
I been shakin I seen red
An those wounds hae mostly mended
Now Im scabbed up where I bled
Now those memories that you left me
Just wont seem to go away
All the time Im a wonderin
Which ol one a you will stay
An oh when Im back in Georgia
Somethin from me gon away

Locked Door Blues

You cant call me anymore
Bringin your trouble to my door
See I locked it shortly after you were gone
Once the heartache that you left now woman finally subside
Then you call me questioning my pride
So if you got the blues draggin you (from behind)
And that weight it gettin heavy in your shoes
Now dont you call me
Turn my smile on upside down into a frown
Till you find that trouble you can lose
Now what you need and what you want now women you gotta divide
Done put all I had on your line
But you were low couldn't recieve it
You were lost the love I handed you got tossed now runaway and hide
So you'l need me for to cry (for to cry)
Soak on up them lonely tears (all your tears)
Oh get over your love darlin (oh darlin)
Yea well it only took me years
So when yall get right in your head
An its me you want sleepin outhere
Betta make damn sure what to do
Well bet Im damn sure I was not a feel like I did when you left
I grow where theres somethin I can prove
Eh dont take me unless u want me (want me)
Well now just that way I am (way I am)
El I dont want you less Im damn sure (Im sure)
Well of yourself you got a hand

Rain Dance

Sun been shinin sun been shinin everyday
Sun been shinin sun been shinin everyday
All I can do is think bouthe rain
All I can do is think bouthe rain
Wanthat rain to want thatrain to water me
Fall down rain now fall down rain water me
Then I will come up like the seed
The seed I planted around me
Come down rain now ... come down rain water me
Sun an rain now sun an rain water me
Then I'l come up like the seed
The seed I planted around me
Fall down rain now fall down rain water me
Then I grow now then I grow the way need
Sun been blinding every day
Land is dying, plants need crying from the rain
And the sky is begin'n now to fade
And the rain creates the seasons change
All I can do is think abouthe rain

Prison Letter

I been waitin for that letter mama
That gon be here to me by mail
Ill keep waitin for that letter mama
Tell me just how much your bail
An were goina be together
Soon as you get outta jail

I been waitin in this prison daddy
I been waitin all alone
I been waitin in this prison daddy
I been waitin all night long
All the time I am waiting
For the time I get back home

Dont worry there now mama
Just bout down to half a year
Girl you know if I had that moneyey
Youd be next to me right here
Buthats a thing bout our lovin
Just gotta waitill you been cleared

I wont worry on my own daddy
I got so many folks in here
Everybody in here worry daddy
Bout the they be cleared
Everytime Im worried
Bout a lovin that they fear

No I wont wonder out no more darlin
An you wont have to weap an moan
Yea Il be sittin where I stand
Right down here like a stone
All the while that it taken
Ill be waitin all alone

Its the same damn thing that
All the women they all know
I been locked in that prison daddy
Got no one more to go
All the while we are waitin
Aint got no place to go

Oh now come that warden [I] (oh) steppin down the hall
Yea now come [your] (that) jail train cut [them] (my) chains from the wall
In the rain [I am] (you are) waitin in [my] (your) dirty overalls

Brother

You an I we seen the same
Brother I'l help you through this game
We all move on to some begotten place
We live right we'l win the race

Sometimes were afraid
An we dont see the light a day
Back on your horse your brave
Dont ever fade

Now brother you are risin
Come to me no big suprize
Always known you seen the other side a things
But you dont gotta look all the places we been

So take it all in stride
Dont let no foolish pride
Eat you right up from inside
We'l find our rhyme

A now were gettin older
Things dont mean like they used to do
Keep that cricket on your shoulder
We live right we'l a push on through

Know in times when your afraid
An ya dont see the light a day
Back on your horse your brave
Dont ever fade

Llama

If I had me a llama and a pretty little mama
Stay in this old place an s w my seed in the ground
But I aint got a llama I aint got a pretty mama
So I'l ride this train get closer to my home

Its that old lifestyle that we live yeah
One ol day it gonna give
Till then Im searchin all around

If I had an alpaca a sweet lady in a shacka
Get my seed s wn right on into the ground
Mi tengo pollo y tengo gatos no tengo llama or alpacas

So I'l s w my seed right by my lonesome self
Yeah the seeds of love life itself yeah the seeds
That gon Il do nobody wrong

Sew the seed for my llama for a pretty little mama
Or maybe even a vacuña only good Im on do ya
So come on over to my house come on over to mi casa
Yeh we'l oh get right on through reapin what we s wn

Still an I know lifestyle that we live yeah
Well one ol day it gonna give
Till then Im searchin all around

Kentucky Mountains

[1st Verse:]
The ridge of ol' Kentucky mountains
Lookin down on what's below
Ill stay right high on this mountain
Till I got somewhere to go

[1st Chorus:]
As my soul is blown fromy body
My hands are shaken like leaves
On my way through Lawd I have stumbled
Though all the while I believe

[2nd Verse:]
Just like every material is broken
My body too here will give up
An then rest high upon Kentucky mountains
Where the wind will have blown me some luck

[2nd Chorus:]
Along this track I be rollin
Never to do nobody wrong
Throuhg the wind I here words
They are spoken
Somehow I turn them into song

[3rd Verse:]
On the mountaintops of Kentucky
The cool winds feed me fresh air
Although my body's in frisco
My soul resides over there

[3rd Chorus:]
Untill March winds, they have spoken
Breezes touch gently on my brow
Sweethearts have been what a gamble
Without your love cannot bare

[4th Verse:]
Alone wonderin through all this thunder
Forgotten rains cannot fall
The lightnin strikes
An I've plundered
Fallin like hail in your arms

[4th Chorus:]
An while time is driftin so slowly
My feet need a pillow through da night
To give rest from the walkin
Jestfully feeling of plight

[1st Verse]
[4th Chorus]

Addiction

Old addiction
If I could put it down again
Find addiction
Comin round my door again door again
I ask myself I ask myself
Was I conductin that train
Why oh why why oh why
El I putted at am I vain
Old addiction
Runnin round my window pane
Found it all fiction
Clutterin up my brain up my brain
I all the while tried down inside
Diggin on up my pain
What I found led me
On the ground get back on my feet again
Still I find caged up here inside
Theres somethin I cannot tame

Reverence

If I find my dark side by
Me again,
I'll be tamed
An if I find my dark side is
Me again,
I'll be pained

Then Ill see the other side again
Bring me to then
There aint no place that I been
Without a friend, found mean end

When I find my place in this here land
Ill win my hand
An if I find my dark side by me again
Ill will offend

My own self an where I been
Got me down again
Once more I sin
I'm all back now where I been
Searchin for a friend
Couldn't find no end

Home ... on my way
Back home ...

Ghostrain

Oh I ... aint gon run out scared
No I ... wont wait till I gethere
& a turns a risin up ahead
Know that rain will be there
So I ...ll walk till I am tired
Know there ...s one thing that I desire
Meantime wont be bothered
No need to be worried withat fire (x 2)
Train gonna arrive
Bouthatime I get tired

No their wont be a trumpet
On my dyin day
Be a big ol band of fiddle strings
Carry me on my way
No there wont be that corn risin
In that oh field so green
Be a somethin on out there
I know in time that I seen

Rooster ... crow for day
My lonely little rooster
Count on him to crow for day
An I know thats when I rise
When he got somthin to say
Im my rooster .. dont crow
I wont rise on out my bed
On that day he dont wake me
Gon be the day I am dead
I gothe hens an that rooster
He don flown on away
Got my hens but my rooster ...
No longer crow for the day

Lay that road down with them rail ties of old
Carry me me down in that coffin so cold
No there wont be that lone trumpet
On my dyin day
Be a big ol band of fiddle strings
They gona carry me on my way
Dont let oh my soul rise
Dont let ah my body fall
After pain and suffering
I wont need no help at all

L.P.

Its a lonely winter and sometimes I feel like cryin
Its a lonely place where I come from
And I feel a bit wiser from my time in lonely places
And Ill see a bit higher than my eyes have known before
What Im ona say when I cant find a place to stay an I
Cant find my way back to those arms
Why can I see way up
High on in the treetops
Where will I be when I get called home
On out on the distance where I see (High on in the treetops)
Faded sunrise blinded me (High on in the treetop)
Where them colours for me to feed (Higher in the treetop)
Wont you lift me up where I can breath (High in the treetops)

If I plant the seeds around me whom I gon be feedin
You bring the sunshine I'l bring rain
We're all a bit wiser from our time in lonely places
An we'l see a bit higher when our soul it is set free
What Im ona say when I aint got no pay an I
Well I done turned right off this road
If an Im a see way on up lon
High on in the treetop
I gotta be right on my own
On out in the distance where I see (Higher than the treetop)
Faded sunrise blinded me (Higher than treetops)
Where them colours for me too feed (Higher in the treetop)
Wont you lift me up where I can breath (High in the treetops)
Howl in the treetop when I'l be
Lawd in time now when I'l be (Higher in the treetops)

So Im through the winter steadily I am still climbin
Somehow I soaked up all this rain
An when that I find her will it last all of a lifetime
Or will I be blinded by this pain
What am I to know when theres nowhere left for me to go an I
Cant find my way back to my own
Where finally Im a see where my soul set free an I
I gon head back to my home
On out on the distance where I see (Higher in the treetop)
Faded sunrise blinded me (Higher in
Wan lift me up where I can breath (High in the
Where them colours for me to feed (Higher
Somethin out there blindin me (Higher in
Sometime I can be (Higher in the treetop ... Howl in the treetop)
On know when I'l be (High in the treetop)
All them colours me to feed (Higher in the treetop)
Lift me up where I can breath (Howl in the treetop)
Howl in the treetop when I'l be
Lawd in time now when Ill be (Howl in the treetops)

Yellow Cuckoo

How do you do?
How do you do?
I'm doing fine
How about you?
You're a little blind
That's nothing new
Well you got some eyes
But you got no sight
And that's all right
What you don't see won't hurt me
As long as I'm free

How are your blues?
How are your blues?
Well I guess you can't choose
When you love and who
Well I stole your lovin'
But you got me runnin' on back to you
And if you're still blue
I'll steal you yellow cuckoo from the zoo

Well I know you grew
Yes I know you grew
Cuz that's what trees like to do
Yellow cuckoo from me flew
Well I'll watch you get tall
As I climb you all
And you'll catch my fall
Yes I'll take off my boots
And plant my feet in your shoes
To grow from your roots

How long must I wait
How long must I wait
Until you learn to say my name?
It's not easy teachin' trees to speak our way
Well I'll love you until the day
They chop you down and make me pay
For your bones
Yes I'll sell all your honey
And then I'll take all that money
Until I can pay to mold
You into a guitar I can hold