A Lonesome Sound

There's A Lonesome Sound on the 'ol Mississip

Where mom raised her brothers all alone

And PawPaw tried to fish, just to make a living

He spent it on booze gettin' stoned

He'd end up in town at a tavern in the evening

Stagger his way on back home

He'd wake in the mornin' to his old dead heart beatin'

Wondered how he lived quite this long

As a child I remember a red barn on the highway

Full of old men and dominoes

And the sound of the old jukebox there in the corner

Playin' Lefty, George Jones and Hank Snow

Night after night he'd sit at a table

Loose women and friends he had known

There were times that I thought it was all over

We'd find him in a state all his own

With blood in his eyes, tryin' hard to remember

The days of his childhood are gone

But with maddog beside him, he'd make up good stories

You'd think he'd been bred for a throne

He'd end up in town at a tavern in the evening

Stagger his way on back home

He'd wake in the mornin' to his old dead heart beatin'

Wondered how he lived quite this long

He had questions, needed answers but no one was listenin'

Wondered how he lived quite this long.