Joe Purdy - Canyon Joe Lyrics
Well I live in the canyonWhere the old coyotes howlAnd they come down from the mountains when the dogs begin to growlAnd they meet up in the darkness where they fight until the deathWhen the morning sun is rising I will bury who they leftAnd oh, they call me Canyon JoeAnd I stay in the cabinWhere I work my hands to bleedSwing the hammer to the nailAnd I swing the axe onto the treeAnd I once cleared these woods-yeah there used to be a pathAnd now the trees have overgrown just to prove that nothing lastsAnd oh, they call me Canyon JoeThe old man went crazyHe lives high up on the ridgeHe used to tell me all the stories of the church house and the bridgeBut the bridge, she washed away your sinThe church house- it got burned'Cause this world has gone angry and some people never learnAnd oh, they call me Canyon JoeAnd I once loved a womanYes and Georgia was her nameWe met out in the foothills of the Ozark Mountain RangeWe saw the world togetherLeast the parts that we love mostShe still comes to me in dreamsI am still haunted with her ghostAnd oh, they call me Canyon JoeAnd all my thoughts are heavyMy beard, it has grown longAnd I search the face of six-strings for an old familiar songBut the chords, they all sound foreign like the places that I've beenSo I close my eyes to sleepTomorrow I will try againAnd oh, they call me Canyon JoeOh, oh, they call me Canyon JoeSinging oh, oh, they call me Canyon Joe