The Tall Man from Kentucky * Song * Country Ballad Music Homemade Southern Style * скачать в хорошем качестве

The Tall Man from Kentucky * Song * Country Ballad Music Homemade Southern Style *

A country ballad about Abraham Lincoln and his life. TITLE: The Tall Man from Kentucky LYRICS: In a cabin built of rough-hewn pine In the hills where the bluegrass whines A baby cried in the winter cold In Hodgenville, eighteen-oh-nine His daddy swung an axe all day His mama prayed by candle flame They raised that boy on honest work And Abraham was his name Chorus Oh the tall man from Kentucky With sorrow in his eyes He carried more than rails of wood He carried a nation’s cries He split those rails with calloused hands Till the sweat ran down like rain But at night he’d read by firelight And teach himself the law by flame From the prairie towns of Illinois To Washington’s troubled door When the Union cracked like thunder He stood as never before Chorus Oh the tall man from Kentucky With sorrow in his eyes He carried more than rails of wood He carried a nation’s cries Brothers wore the blue and gray And fields ran red with loss He bowed his head and bore the weight Of freedom’s heavy cost He signed his name to liberty And broke the binding chain Said this land shall not be parted Nor slavery remain Chorus Oh the tall man from Kentucky With sorrow in his eyes He carried more than rails of wood He carried a nation’s cries On a spring night in a theater hall A shadow crossed the light And the man who held the Union fast Fell silent in the night But the words he spoke at Gettysburg Still echo soft and plain That this nation, under God Shall rise and stand again Final Chorus Oh the tall man from Kentucky Still walking through our land Not just in books of history But in the rights for which we stand