A Country Song

A country song left the farm

As the young man marched to war

Became a sound heard clear around the world

From a lonely soldier's guitar

Who had never been so far before

For Mom and Dad and a special little girl

And cutting through the quiet like a whistle in the night

A train of memories and even city boys could ride

Mountain high, valley low

Proud and strong, a country song

Meanwhile cross the water

The mothers and the daughters

Were working in the defense factories

All up and down the line

The machines and women whined

A country song as blue as the sea

That stretched so far between

Like the prayers and the dreams

Of the men who where fighting to keep their country free

Though it seemed to take forever

They were finally back together

And the young men took a restless look around

'Cause it seemed the world unfolded

And the land just couldn't hold 'em

So they headed for the cities and the towns

They could feel the homefires glow

As they gathered around the radio

To hear the Grand Old Opry as the weekend rolled around

There's a kid out on the highway

Who says he's got some dues to pay

So he set out with a guitar and a dream

He don't look much like a cowboy

But he swears he's gonna make some noise

Change a tune or two in Tennessee

Though his hands had never worked the land

His granddad was a railroad man

He sang him Jimmie Rodgers songs as he sat upon his knee