Roots

There's some planted down in the dirt of every hometown Some you miss, some you know The ones ya need most, most don't show It's the thankless, the dangerous, sometimes we forget We wouldn't be standing if God hadn't sent The name on the badge, flashing blue lighters Bunk in a mack, long haul drivers Combine ridin' reasons we all got food The first in the fire for no extra zeroes Front line fightin' dog tag heroes The blood and the sweat for the rest of the red, white, and blue There's the tree you can see, then there's roots Sunday preacher, Monday lineman Set of gloves and scrubs on the nightshift It's a teacher with a whiteboard, teaching what to fight for Mamas raisin' kids right So they end up like The name on the badge, flashin' blue lighters Bunk in a mack, long haul drivers Combine ridin' reasons we all got food The first in the fire for no extra zeroes Front line fightin' dog tag heroes The blood and the sweat for the rest of the red, white, and blue There's the tree you can see, then there's roots When the sky falls down they keep showing up We owe it all to every last one Of the thankless, the dangerous, sometimes we forget We wouldn't be standing if God hadn't sent The name on the badge, flashin' blue lighters Bunk in a mack, long haul drivers Combine ridin' reasons we all got food The first in the fire for no extra zeroes Front line fightin' dog tag heroes The blood and the sweat for the rest of the red, white, and blue There's the tree you can see, then there's roots There's the tree you can see, then there's roots