Oliver Anthony Music - A sentiment of those who can remember a better Time and more simple way of Life

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Rich Men North of Richmond

[Verse 1]
I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay
So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home and drown my troubles away

[Pre-Chorus]
It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is

[Chorus]
Livin' in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end
'Cause of rich men north of Richmond

[Verse 2]
I wish politicians would look out for miners
And not just minors on an island somewhere
Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat
And the obese milkin' welfare
Well, God, if you're five-foot-three and you're three-hundred pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of Fudge Rounds
Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground
'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down
[Pre-Chorus]
Lord, it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is

[Chorus]
Livin' in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end
'Cause of rich men north of Richmond

[Outro]
I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay

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I Want To Go Home

[Verse 1]
If it wasn't for my old dogs and the good Lord
They'd have me strung up in the psych ward
'Cause every day livin' in this new world
Is one too many days to me

[Verse 2]
Son, we're on the brink of the next World War
And I don't think nobody's prayin' no more
And I ain't sayin' I know it for sure
I'm just down on my knees

[Chorus]
Beggin', Lord, take me home
I wanna go home
I don't know which road to go
It's been so long
I just know I didn't used to wake up feelin' this way
Cussin' myself every damn day
Well, people have really gone and lost their way
They all just do what the TV say
I wanna go home

[Chorus]
And I wanna go home
I wanna go home
I don't know which road to go
It's been so long
I just know I didn't used to wake up feelin' this way
Cussin' myself every damn day
Well, people have really gone and lost their way
They all just do what the TV say
I wanna go home

[Outro]
If it wasn't for my old dogs and the good Lord
They'd have me strung up in the psych ward

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I've Got to Get Sober

[Verse 1]
Well the life we've been given and the way we've been livin'
That's the song that we write 'til we die
Now some people write songs on livin' just right
But I write mine on just getting by

[Pre-Chorus]
I'll go on a whim, start writing the hymn
That sounds so sweet
But the troubles and the sin of the world that we're in
Knock me back off my feet

[Chorus]
I gotta get sober
I gotta start livin' right
I don't know how it's gonna go
But it ain't gonna happen tonight
So pour 'em down strong
'Til I drown
And if I wake up tomorrow
When that sun comes back around
I'll be wishing I was sober

[Verse 2]
Well the liquor and the bowl, they'vе been saving my soul
From the pain that the world's put on me
Lord, I know that upstairs thеre's an old man who cares
And one day he'll set me free

[Pre-Chorus]
I'll go on a whim, start writing the hymn
The sound so sweet
But the troubles and the sin of the world that we're in
Knock me back off my feet

[Chorus]
I gotta get sober
I gotta start livin' right
I don't know how it's gonna go
But it ain't gonna happen tonight
So pour 'em down strong
'Til I drown
And if I wake up tomorrow
When that sun comes back around
I'll be wishing I was sober

[Outro]
Well the life we've been given and the way we've been livin'
That's the song that we write 'til we die

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Momma's Been Hurting

"Momma's Been Hurting"

Momma's been hurting
'Cause daddy's been down
Ain't nobody been working
Since the mill left town
They got two young'uns not 10 years old
With 200 dollars left in his bill fold
And a week's worth of groceries is the price of gold
When your whole damn country's been bought and sold

Whenever there's been hard times
It's always made hard folks
Who could get it to the other side
And not let it be all she wrote
I'd love to live to be an old man
But God you can take me a young one
Just don't let the land I love
Die so young
Of thee I sing

I've been flying low
And my troubled mind
Get to digging me a hole
For my soul who can't climb
Is it the end of the world? Nobody knows
'Cause they all just stare at the trash on their phones
In a land that's littered with many men's bones
Who died fighting for somewhere they could call home

Whenever there's been hard times
It's always made hard folks
Who could get it to the other side
And not let it be all she wrote
I'd love to live to be an old man
But God you can take me a young one
Just don't let the land I love
Die so young
Of thee I sing

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County Roads

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[Verse 1]
Almost Heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze

[Chorus]
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, oh, mountain mama
Lord, take me home, country roads

[Verse 2]
All my memories gather 'round her
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
A misty taste of moonshine, a teardrop in my eye

[Chorus]
Country roads, take mе home
To the place I bеlong
West Virginia, oh, mountain mama
Lord, take me home, country roads

[Bridge]
I hear her voice in the morning hour, she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Driving down the road, I get this feeling
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

[Chorus]
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, oh, mountain mama
Lord, take me home, country roads

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