Burn Barrel Blues - Dark Country Boy
I found my sins at the break of dawn
A shoveling hand, the devil's pawn
The steel was quiet, the air was cold
My story buried, my soul unsold
Burn barrel burn, take it away
Ashes to the wind, not in today
No proof, no trace, just smoke in the air
Burn barrel burn, like I was never there
The lawman's close, I hear his tread
Each step's a hammer inside my head
Whiskey on my breath, blood on the ground
A sinner's hymn, the only sound
Fire eats the truth, flame licks the lie
The past goes up into the sky
Burn barrel burn, take it away
Ashes to the wind, not in today
No proof, no trace, just smoke in the air
Burn barrel burn, like I was never there
Moonshine dreams turned bitter red
A murder haunts the life I fled
The dober cries, the fire moans
Each note a ghost, each chord a stone
Burn barrel burn, take it away
Ashes to the wind, not in today
No proof, no trace, just smoke in the air
Burn barrel burn, like I was never there