Westward Bound Lyrics

Winter time cold hell drinking from a dry well trying to balance wrong and right

About all the fighting the boys repented of their sins girls got a kiss goodbye

Rich men screaming didn't wanna pay a cent never worked a cotton row

Tricked where the poor boys still lost in the noise we're just dirt for them to throw

Fell out of the regiment held up at the station shot up the whole road back

Deserters hang down here but we can't live in fear can't tell lies from facts

Everywhere the eye can see dead piled as high as trees so they can keep it in the bank

Mother's children crying to help side minded sons a bitches make their rank

The cannons rolled

The muskets fired

The crops did burn with the rest of town

This goddamn war

Has destroyed our home

Let us away we're westward bound

Snow falling on the road can't pay the Yankee gold Appomattox came too late

Don't wanna fight here don't wanna die either time to let go the hate

Meanwhile back at home they fenced off the road and set up a warning bell

Won't take the boys away I don't care what you say Davis took us straight to hell

The cannons rolled

The muskets fired

The crops did burn with the rest of town

This goddamn war has destroyed our home

Let us away

We're westward bound

Tried to hold the promised land militia finally rolled in gave us a hell of a fight

I guess it was meant to be read the smoke in the trees the end of all this in sight

Rich men screaming didn't wanna pay a cent never worked a cotton row

Tricked where the poor boys still lost in the noise we're just dirt for them to throw