Middle Ground (Live)

Well I gotta get out right now

What in the world to do?

Seems I stole a ghost away from you

Shame my mother with the burden of a murdering son

Well I'm headed out west, blazing a trail

Gonna run clean out of my shoes

I'll keep on running 'til the bottom of my feet are bruised

Uncle told me once about a place called the middle ground

Well, way over yonder past the Ohio River

You can eat like a woodland king

There's fish in the water like you ain't never seen

Ain't no man hungry in the bounty of the middle ground

You can eat on elk, eat on deer

You can eat on ring-tailed 'coon

There's all kinds of critters in the dark that wanna eat on you

Ain't no man hungry in the bounty of the middle ground

Well the church-yard [?] mountain

Turned murderer-on-the-run

Pray my mama and the Lord in heaven

Can forgive me for the things I've done

But there ain't no jury in the middle ground

In the middle ground a boy is free

So goodbye Mama, I'm a-going to the middle ground

Well I know his friends and his next of kin

Would love to watch me swing

And I may be sorry that I ain't so sorry

That I'm never gonna let them see

That there ain't no jury in the middle ground

In the middle ground a boy is free

So goodbye momma, I'm a-going to the middle ground

Well I gotta get out right now

What in the world to do?

Seems I beat the brakes right off of you

Sent you early to the maker of the middle ground

So goodbye momma I'm going to the middle ground