Daylight's Burning

Chorus

Well the roosters crowing gotta rise and shine

Daylights burning ain’t got a lot of time

When the day is over and the works all done

We’ll sing and dance and have a little fun

V1

Today my thoughts took me back in time

To a hillside farm on the county line

It seems just like it was yesterday

And I seem to here my mother say

Hurry up kids get out of that bed

We got a cow to milk and hogs to be fed

Chickens cackling out in the yard

It’s a brand new day we gotta hit it hard

V2

Well the birds are singing and it’s still half dark

Up on the hill I heard the old dog bark

Bet he’s got an old possum treed

That grinning devil we just don’t need

I can smell the ham frying in the pan

Biscuits butter and blackberry jam

Woodsmoke rising on the morning air

We ain’t got plenty but we got our share