Scarecrow In the Garden

Well, he came from Northern Ireland

Searchin' for the free man's ground

And he came to bet his fortune

On a West Virginia plow

He built a house of timber

And raised a redhead son

Then they worked the land together

And prayed the rain would come

There's a scarecrow in the garden

That looks like Lucifer

And I've been readin' Revelations

With my bare feet in the river

Well, the readhead son got older

And took a brown eyed wife

And the fields were green as dollars

'Cause the dirt was black as night

I came in late September

The youngest one of three

And my sisters off and married

So the land was left to me

There's a scarecrow in the garden

That looks like Lucifer

And I've been readin' Revelations

With my bare feet in the river

I know every single fence post

Every rock to go around

I've been starin' at the red oak

Where I know they'll lay me down

The fields ain't what they once were

The rains just seem to flood

And I've been thinkin' 'bout that river

Wonderin' how it turns to blood

I've been sittin' here all mornin'

I was sittin' here all night

There's a Bible in my left hand

And a pistol in my right