Salty South

Mister, pull up a chair,

I got time for tears

So tell me all the stories that you never did

Of the salty south, the

Seminoles held out

While Geronimo died in a lonely jail

Thousand tides, thousand waves

Takin' it all away

It'll come back in, we'll be gone by then

And it's a miracle we ever learned to live

You drain that land for a better plan

Sugarcane and the civil man

But now the ringin' dead them pines planted in that time

We gonna keep on killin' till they get it right

Thousand tides, thousand waves

Takin' it all away

It'll come back in, we'll be gone by then, oh

And it's a miracle we ever learned to live

I remember the wind as it was settlin'

And every sun goin' down was a picture then

But we look back at 'em framed, they all look the same

There's no sense of time, no sense of pain

Thousand tides, thousand waves

Takin' it all away

It'll come back in, we'll be gone by then, oh

And it's a miracle we ever learned to give