Cue Country Roads (Apple Music Sessions) - Charles Wesley Godwin

Money's been a wise buck this year Now there's things in life that you've always feared There ain't a use to pouting around Singing 'woe is me' until you're six feet down Always following the same old tracks Time to break off and cut a new path Don't put down these words I say It takes blood and sweat to find a new way You're coming on strong I know your night's been long But I can see you coming around the bend And kicking until the end Like Prefontaine from an outside lane Proving them wrong Coming on strong Every miss is a payment made To a debt of dues that we all must pay Your empty coffers aren't a sign That you haven't saved for a whole lifetime And you can go out swingin' to a cold dark grave They can never say that you didn't live brave Born to nothing but pain and strain Leave with grit fixed to your name You're coming on strong I know your night's been long But I can see you coming around the bend And kicking until the end Like Prefontaine from an outside lane Proving them wrong Coming on strong You're coming on strong I know your night's been long But I can see you coming around the bend Oh and kicking until the end Like Prefontaine from an outside lane Proving them wrong Coming on strong Proving them wrong Coming on strong

I never would've guessed it in a hundred years or more I'd meet a lowland angel, the likes I'd never seen before She grew up where the sun does run hot across the sky Sweetened her up nice like some strawberry wine I crowned her in my mind, oh, my Strawberry Queen I ain't cut out for royalty, never saw myself a king No blue blood in these veins, just a mountain boy with dreams But I got caught up in her love like a storm down in the Gulf The high winds wreck my docks, the water rusts my locks My wave breaks on the rocks for my Strawberry Queen I ain't the first to pledge my service to the crown I know her subjects in the past have let her down Treasonous fools never come around this town Or I'd throw my fist and give 'em hell and stand my ground For my Strawberry Queen For my Strawberry Queen I met her at a dance hall early one spring Felt like Adam next to Eve staring at a fruit of God So I wrapped a bow around my heart And placed it in a box of cherry wood I asked her if she could take that box and do it good She smiled and said she would, oh, my Strawberry Queen I ain't the first to pledge my service to the crown I know her subjects in the past have let her down Treasonous fools never come around this town Or I'd throw my fist and give 'em hell and stand my ground For my Strawberry Queen For my Strawberry Queen

In the spring of 1949, that's when I crossed the county line It's there I saw in Seneca Creek A girl named Ruth who washed her feet I told her my name was RC Phares that I'd marry her with half a karat She said, "I do, but no stone can reach the prettiest shine of this here creek" The mud was deep and the roads were wide We'd retreat and then retake the lines Korean winters had torn me down and killed all the boys from my hometown But I'm coming home, Ruth, my dear I got money in my pocket, don't you fear We'll build a life by Seneca Creek You'll have everything you'll ever need Let's build a home by Seneca Creek and raise ourselves a family I'll work on the farm, you work the store We'll have everything we ever hoped for With the top of a mountain above our heads and the roar of Seneca by the bed Seneca Creek And sure enough, the hard times came You loved those, I did the same We made it through the winter's cold And many summers young and old In '85, the creek did rise but it only took the other side The Gandee, North Fork and South Branch too The house stood still that I built for you In '94, when you got sick, we'd make up trips for the hell of it Take my hand, Ruth, my dear I'll take you back to any year And now you lie on the hill up high Right beneath the mountain sky Seneca Creek sings below Atop the tree sits a lonely crow We built a home by Seneca Creek and raised ourselves a family I worked on the farm, you worked the store We had everything we'd ever hoped for With the top of a mountain above our heads and the roar of Seneca by the bed Seneca Creek

I watch you walking 'cross the floor And I've been missing you and more Beating on my heart shakes the framing in my chest I'm falling more and more, and hell, I don't mind being poor When I'm with you, I pity all the king's around the world Times are getting hard, good is getting rare You and me and the babies have 'em all the time, I swear We don't mind the shit folks talk We're just keeping our eyes locked They can watch us chase those dreams they never even dared We've got time, dear You're the girl I knew back when Don't you love, dear I'm the boy who's always been In love with you to the end And I'd do it all again We've got time, dear You're the girl I knew back when Don't you love, dear I'm the boy who's always been We've got time, dear You're the girl I knew back when Don't you love, dear I'm the boy who's always been In love with you to the end And I'd do it all again All again All again All again All again

Go put on that blue dress The one you know I love the best Don't mind me, I'll stay down here So I can watch you stridin' down the steps I missed you more than you know It seems like we're always fightin' time Thoughts of you on nights like these Give me hope while across state lines Let's warm up these hardwood floors And tonight I'll see you spin around Take my hand, honey, let's just dance And pretend there ain't nobody else in town And tonight there ain't nobody else around And tonight there ain't nobody else in town Four feet move down the line Synchronized in perfect time And for once my blues have past I can feel them fading behind In your eyes they look in mine Reading what lies behind It's just love, honey, don't you mind Everything will be just fine Let's warm up these hardwood floors And tonight I'll see you spin around Take my hand, honey, let's just dance And pretend there ain't nobody else in town And tonight there ain't nobody else around And tonight there ain't nobody else in town, no The moments he has a little life He lives and breathes like a soul Here and now it breathes in us Livin' on 'til we're old Until we're old Let's warm up these hardwood floors And tonight I'll see you spin around Take my hand, honey, let's just dance And pretend there ain't nobody else in town And tonight there ain't nobody else around And tonight there ain't nobody else in town Let's warm up these hardwood floors And tonight I'll see you spin around Take my hand, honey, let's just dance And pretend there ain't nobody else in town And tonight there ain't nobody else around And tonight there ain't nobody else in town, oh