Levi

Born upon the blue ridge, at the Carolina line Baptized on the banks of the new river Brought upon blue grass and clear moon shine And tough as iron but a heart soft as leather Levi, lord, lord, lord, they shot him down Ten thousand miles from a southern town Oh, Levi Like a fire on a mountain, running wild with no states Playing nights on the glory horse shoe And Indian raids Now it's parachutes and combat boots They camouflaged they planes And a country boy who don't belong In the desert anyways Levi, lord, lord, lord, they shot him down Ten thousand miles from a southern town Oh, Levi Well the sandbox sure gets lonesome And it's a hundred and nine degrees Singing carry my back to Virginia Lord I'm down here on my knees In a market skrell while the bells were ringing Loud to fill the air Levi gazed his eyes out, to the rocket player Be on the desert and the ocean To the farthest fields on home And when the bullets pierced his body He was already gone Levi, lord, lord, lord, they shot him down Ten thousand miles from a southern town Oh, Levi, lord, lord, lord, they shot him down Oh, Levi, oh Levi. --- Levi - Old Crow Medicine Show