Ichabod And Abraham

He put on his shirt carefully, making sure that the buttons matched up

His sleeves were always too short

But at least it meant he could always see his watch

And often he checked the time

And it would be stopped

He always thought it was broken

But then he'd remember he had to wind it, oh

Though he knew some day he'd remember to wind it and it wouldn't work after all

Maybe that would happen on the exact day he didn't think it was broken

Isn't that the way it works

Isn't that the way it goes

While the fox he lurks

And while the rooster crows

Isn't that the way things are

The way the world ain't flat

But you can only run so far before you make it back

He could drink from the sink by craning his head far to one side

The day he figured that out, one of the horses died

It was one of the twins that barely a week'd been alive

It was the one who could barely stand

We'd wrapped his legs with gauze and bandages from inside from one of the kitchen drawers

We called him stretch

Cuz he was so skinny and tall

Momma said both twins rarely live with horses

We was lucky to have one livin at all

And me and my momma slept in the stall next to them in the bed of a pickup

All us kids piled in

I remember the momma horse lickin and cleaning up her newborn babies

She was working so hard (she was working so hard)

She was working so hard (she was working so hard)

She was working so hard

She was working so hard

She was working so hard

She was working so hard

Isn't that the way it works

Isn't that the way it goes

While the fox he lurks

And while the rooster crows

Isn't that the way things are

The way the world ain't flat

You can only run so far before you make it back

Isn't that the way it works

Isn't that the way it goes

While the fox he lurks

And while the rooster crows

Isn't that the way things are

The way the world ain't flat

You can only run so far before you make it back

You can only run so far

You can only run so far

Before you make it, before you make it back