The ages tumble through the dust
and crisscross like wagon wheel tracks
through the backwoods across the country
from out west and long back
Kentucky bourbons not far off
from the weathered mountains of the old east coast
the star spangled banner unfurled and on an angels sinuous demographic
across plains, and Colorado she tiptoed.
Till sea to shining sea was inundated
with near do wells and stragglers of all cloth and humble kind
long before the highfalutin in their ivory towers
had made up half a mind.
Bootstraps where pulled up, shortly after bootbuckles shined
and shortly after that bootbuckles went out of fashion
for electricity and clocks that kept too well the time.
And before you know it, no one saw it
we'd made ourselves a handmedown of a nation, spit polished fine.
Something old, something new, something borrowed, red white and blue.
With foolhardy wits and faith in what all the world took for moonshine.
I;d like to think that maybe that was the plan all along.
The ages tumble through the dust
and crisscross like wagon wheel tracks
through the backwoods across the country
from out west and long back
Kentucky bourbons not far off
from the weathered mountains of the old east coast
the star spangled banner unfurled and on an angels sinuous demographic
across plains, and Colorado she tiptoed.
Till sea to shining sea was inundated
with near do wells and stragglers of all cloth and humble kind
long before the highfalutin in their ivory towers
had made up half a mind.
Bootstraps where pulled up, shortly after bootbuckles shined
and shortly after that bootbuckles went out of fashion
for electricity and clocks that kept too well the time.
And before you know it, no one saw it
we'd made ourselves a handmedown of a nation, spit polished fine.
Something old, something new, something borrowed, red white and blue.
With foolhardy wits and faith in what all the world took for moonshine.
I;d like to think that maybe that was the plan all along.
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