On The Red River

Lyrics

[Verse 1] There's a mid-July whitetail in velvet Red as your old Chevrolet And I was sixteen when you wrecked it and we Were lucky we both walked away And you could day work and scrape out a living The work for which you had been born You were quick with a laugh and forgiving And tied hard and fast to the horn We had Kelpies and good Quarter Horses We had wheat pasture yearlings tied down We learned pain was the price of admission And you're never done paying it down [Chorus] Back on the red river, not hard to remember When your daddy wouldn't ever get old When I saw the world from up on your shoulders I remember the view, when you live like we do Death doesn't leave with the best part of you [Verse 2] On days off, we'd help out our neighbors And we smiled and we sweated for free You'd earned every drink with your labor And I'd sleep on your front seat 'til 3 And you'd call it a cure for a snake bite And reach for a fifth of Old Crow Some medicine should get your head right When your symptoms were starting to show [Chorus] Back on the red river, not hard to remember When your daddy wouldn't ever get old When I saw the world from up on your shoulders I remember the view, when you live like we do Death doesn't leave with the best part of you [Verse 3] And there are pickups lined up down the driveway Have I really been gone for two years? I'd be on my third on a good day I find my last bottle of beer I guess Saturday started without you I knew before I got the call The red July bucks are in velvet I'll tell you about 'em this fall [Chorus] Back on the red river, not hard to remember When your daddy wouldn't ever get old I got a look at the world from up on your shoulders I remember the view, when you live like we do Death doesn't leave with the best part of you [Outro] Got a look at the world from up on your shoulders I remember the view, when you live like we do Death doesn't leave with the best part of you