Scarecrow In The Garden.
Chris Stapleton.
Album: From A Room Vol 2.
[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Well he came from Northern Ireland,
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Searching for the free man?s ground,
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And he came to bet his fortune,
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On a west virginia plow.
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He built a house of timber,
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And raised a redhead son,
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Then they worked the land together,
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And prayed the rain would come.
[Chorus]
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There?s a scarecrow in the garden,
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That looks like Lucifer,
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And I?ve been reading revelations,
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With my bare feet in the dirt.
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Well the redhead son got older,
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And took a brown-eyed wife,
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And the fields were green as dollars,
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'cause the dirt was black as night.
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I came in late September,
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The youngest one of three,
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And my sisters off and married,
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So the land was left to me.
[Chorus]
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There?s a scarecrow in the garden,
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That looks like Lucifer,
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And I?ve been reading revelations,
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With my bare feet in the dirt.
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I know every single fence post,
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Every rock to go around,
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I?ve been staring at the red oak,
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Where I know they?ll lay me down.
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The fields ain?t what they once were,
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The rains just seem to flood,
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And i?ve been thinking ?bout that river,
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Wonderin? how it turns to blood.
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I?ve been sitting here all morning,
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I was sitting here all night,
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There?s a Bible in my left hand,
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And a pistol in my right.