Sins Of My Father

****       God said don’t give me your tin horn prayers     And don’t buy roses from the street down there     Took it all and took the dirt road home     Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair     Night is falling like a bloody axe     Lies and rumours and the wind at my back     Hand on the wheel Gravel on the road     Will the pawn shop sell me back what I sold    I’m gonna take the sins of my Father I’m gonna take the sins of my Mother    I’m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond     Birds cry a warning from a hidden branch     Carving out a future with a gun and an axe     I’m way beyond the gavel and the laws of man     Still living in the palm of the grace of your hand     The world’s not easy the blind man said     Turns on nothing but money and dread     Dogs been scratching at the door all night     Long necked birds flying out of the moonlight    I’m gonna take the sins of my Father I’m gonna take the sins of my Mother    I’m gonna take the sins of my brother  Down to the pond Down to the pond     Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie     The star spangled glitter of his one good eye     Everybody knows that the game was rigged     Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig     Dark town alleys been hiding you     Long bell tolling is your Waterloo     Oh baby what can you do     Does the light of God blind you   Or lead the way home for you    I’m gonna take the sins of my Father  I’m gonna take the sins of my Mother    I’m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Down to  the pond    INST: AS VERSE    I’m gonna take the sins of my Father  I’m gonna take the sins of my Mother    I’m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Down to  the pond     God almighty for righteousness sake     Humilation of our fallen state     Written in the Book of Tubal Cain     A long black coat will show no stain    Feel the heat and the burn on your back     The rip and the moan The stretch of the rack     All my belongings in a flour sack     Will the place I come from take me back  I’m gonna take the sins of my Father I’m gonna take the sins of my Mother  I’m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Down to the pond     They’ll hang me in the morning on a scaffold yea big     To dance upon nothing to the Tyburn jig     Treats you like a puppet when you’re under it’s spell     Oh the heart is Heaven  But the mind is Hell     Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds     I’s born at this time for a reason you see     When I’m dead I’ll be dead a long time     But the wines so pleasing and so sublime  I’m gonna take the sins of my Father I’m gonna take the sins of my Mother  I’m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond Down to the pond     Kissed my sweetheart by the chinaball tree     Everything I done is between God and me     Only he will judge how my time was spent     Twentynine days of sinning and forty to repent    The horse is steady but the horse is blind     Wicked are the branches on the tree of mankind    The roots grow upward and the branches grow down     It’s much too late to throw the dice again I’ve found  I’m gonna take the sins of my Father  I’m gonna take the sins of my Mother  I’m gonna take the sins of my brother Down to the pond     I’m gonna wash them     I’m gonna wash them     I’m gonna wash the sins of my Father     I’m gonna wash the sins of my Mother     I’m gonna wash the sins of my brother     Till the water runs clear    Till the water runs clear     Till the water runs clear    Till the water runs clear