Scarecrow in the Garden

[Verse 1]

Well he came from Northern Ireland

Searching 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

[Chorus]

There's a scarecrow in the garden

That looks like Lucifer

And I've been reading Revelations

With my bare feet in the dirt

[Verse 2]

Well the redhead 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

[Chorus]

There's a scarecrow in the garden

That looks like Lucifer

And I've been reading Revelations

With my bare feet in the dirt

[Bridge]

I know every single fencepost

Every rock that goes around

I've been staring at the red oak

Where I know they'll lay me down

[Verse 3]

The fields ain't what they once were

The rains just seem to flood

And I've been thinking about that river

Wondering how it turned to blood

[Outro]

I've been sitting here all morning

I was sitting here all night

There's a bible in my left hand

And a pistol in my right