Levi
By: Old Crow Medicine Show
Intro:
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Born up on the blue ridge at the Carolina line
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Baptized on the banks of the new river
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Brought up on bluegrass and clear moonshine
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Tough as iron but a heart soft as leather
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Levi Lord Lord Lord the shot him down
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Ten thousand miles from a southern town
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Oh oh Levi
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Like a fire on the mountain running wild in those days
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Playing nights of the golden horseshoe and Indian raids
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Now it's parachutes and combat boots and camouflage airplanes
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And a country boy who don't belong in the desert anyway
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Levi Lord Lord Lord the shot him down
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Ten thousand miles from a southern town
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Oh oh Levi
Solo
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Well the sand box sure gets lonesome and its a hundred and nine degrees
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Singing carry me back to Virginia Lord I'm down here on my knees
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In the market square while the bells were ringing loud to fill the air
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Levi gazed his eyes out through the rocket glare
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Beyond the desert and the ocean to the furthest fields of home
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And when the bullets pierced his body he was already gone
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Levi Lord Lord Lord the shot him down
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Ten thousand miles from a southern town
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Oh oh Levi Lord Lord Lord the shot him down
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Oh oh Levi
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Oh oh Levi