Tobacco Road
David Allen
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Rows of cane and cotton fields, sweat that never paid
Children worked from dawn to dark, dreams kept tucked away
Mules pulled slow and freedom seemed a world they'd never know
But faith was sown in quiet hearts, beneath that southern glow
Tobacco Road, still runnin' through time
Where pain and hope walked the same thin line
From the fields of the past to the marches bold
Still walkin' down Tobacco Road...
(Tobacco Ro..Road...)
Voices rose in Sunday pews, hymns became a call
King said..
"Love could break the chains, justice for us all"
Letters written in the dark lit freedom's burning flame
From Selma's bridge to Washington, the world would know his name
Tobacco Road, still runnin' through time
Where pain and hope walked the same thin line
From the fields of the past to the marches bold
Still walkin' down Tobacco Ro..Road...
(Tobacco Ro..Road...)
Sugarcane sweat
Tobacco smoke
Chains held tight
Sweet dreams broken
Freedom march
MLK's stand
Justice rose
Across the land
Now the tractors cut the rows where the mules once strained
Dreams don't stop at the county line, they reach the world's domain
But the roots run deep, and the lessons hold
Freedom's a story still being told...
Hands that once picked cane now raise a sign
Songs of the South keep freedom in mind
The road is long, but the story's clear
The past still speaks, and we still hear
Voices loud
Freedom rings
Dreams take flight
Stand for right
Cane fields gone
Tobacco fades
But freedom's fight
Will never trade
Tobacco Road, still runnin' through time
Where pain and hope walked the same thin line
From the fields of the past to the marches bold
Still walkin' down Tobacco Road...
(Tobacco Road...)
Tobacco Road... still runnin' through time
Still walkin' down Tobacco Road
Tobacco Road... it's carved in my soul
Still walkin' down Tobacco Road