[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:05.70]I guess there was a time [00:07.30]I could have left this old place [00:09.61]As a young man [00:10.76]I longed to see more than fields of corn [00:14.45]I remember once I had a hundred dollars saved [00:18.73]But dad needed it to put in this old farm [00:23.04]He used to say son you got to put down roots [00:27.05]Just like I done and the kelly's before me [00:30.89]He'd pick up a handful of that wore out dirty [00:34.82]And I knowed I was in for this familiar old story [00:39.87]You know that forty acres we got in corn this year [00:44.17]Your great grand daddy cleared that land [00:48.53]With two big mules and sweat and tears [00:52.93]And a good woman who lent him a hand [00:57.17]And when he give out before his time [01:01.29]Them boys of his hand land of their own [01:05.69]So you see all of this that I call mine [01:08.81]Is more in the neighborhood of just a loan [01:13.88]From father to son through a hundred years [01:18.45]For generations still unknown [01:22.64]Every kelly passin' through this way [01:27.15]Will know this place as home [01:33.81]Yet dad had a way of tellin' that story [01:37.88]Sorta kept me a lingerin' on [01:42.35]While all my younger brothers drifted away one by one [01:47.25]But I couldn't leave him alone [01:51.13]And today when that oldest son of mine [01:55.62]Got to talkin' about places he longed to see [01:59.96]I told him once again that old familiar story [02:04.76]Just the way it was told to me [02:08.14]From father to son through a hundred years [02:12.70]For generations still unknown [02:16.86]Every kelly passin' through this way [02:22.35]Will know this place as home