Take `em away

Take ‘em away, take ‘em away, Lord
Take away these chains from me
My heart is broken ‘cause my spirit’s not free
Lord take away these chains from me

Some birds’ feathers are too bright to be caged
I know I’m not that colorful but a bird just the same
Open up your gate now, let me put down my load
So I can feel at ease and go back to my home

Take ‘em away, take ‘em away, Lord
Take away these chains from me
My heart is broken ‘cause my spirit’s not free
Lord take away these chains from me

Sun beatin’ down, my legs can’t seem to stand
There’s a boss man at a turnrow with a rifle in his hand
I’ve got nine child, nothin’ in the pan
My wife she died hungry while I was plowin’ land

Take ‘em away, take ‘em away, Lord
Take away these chains from me
My heart is broken ‘cause my spirit’s not free
Lord take away these chains from me

Can’t see when I go to work, can’t see when I get off
How do you expect a man not to get lost
Every year I just keep getting deeper in debt
If there’s a happy day, Lord, I haven’t seen one yet

Take ‘em away, take ‘em away, Lord
Take away these chains from me
My heart is broken ‘cause my spirit’s not free
Lord take away these chains from me

Land that I love is the land that I’m workin’
But it’s hard to love it all the time when your back is a-hurtin’
Gettin’ too old now to push this here plow
Please let me lay down so I can look at the clouds

Take ‘em away, take ‘em away, Lord
Take away these chains from me
My heart is broken ‘cause my spirit’s not free
Lord take away these chains from me

Land that I know is where two rivers collide
The Escatawpa and the Leaf and the big blue sky
Flood plains, freight trains, watermelon vines
Of any place on God’s green earth, this is where I choose to die

Take ‘em away, take ‘em away, Lord
Take away these chains from me
My heart is broken ‘cause my spirit’s not free
Lord take away these chains from me


"Take `em away"
by Old Crow Medicine Show

Four Things

Four Things

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Assistant Project Manager - Construction Company
2. Maintenance at a ranch in Colorado
3. Estimator at Construction Company
4. Worked at a dairy milking cows

Four movies I could watch over and over:
1. Tombstone
2. Tommy Boy
3. Dazed and Confused
4. We Were Soldiers

Four Places I have lived:
1. Lucedale, MS
2. Starkville, MS (Home of Mississippi State)
3. Lake George, CO
4. Gulfport, MS

Four things I like to do:
1. Hang out with friends
2. Tailgate at Mississippi State
3. Travel
4. Read

Four websites I visit daily:
1. Myspace
2. Facebook
3. Clarion Ledger (Jackson, MS newspaper)
4. Sun Herald (Mississippi Gulf Coast newspaper)

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Seafood (shrimp, oysters, flounder, etc)
2. Catfish
3. Sunday Dinner (roast, rice gravy, and fresh veggies)
4. Chinese

Four places I would like to be right now:
1. At a Mississippi State football game!
2. In Destin
3. Colorado
4. Fishing

Four places I have been on vacation
1. Florida Keys
2. Steamboat Springs, CO
3. Boston, MA
4. San Francisco, CA