From the recording Backroad To My Soul
Lyrics
Backroad To My Soul
This asphalt highway’s taken me far as I wanna go
Sign says you can walk a bridge down to a swamp of Tupelo
In Jackson Mississippi I found no place to rest
Round and round that city to a rendezvous with death
When a heart cries out for a quiet place
Time to take a walk in the woods off the Natchez Trace
On the backroad to my soul I’m on the backroad to my soul
I’m on the long forgotten ruts of a wagon road
Wind cries all my sorrows on a wagon road
Prayers I forgot to pray on a wagon road
Way down in a churchyard, kneeling by the broken stones
One by one I see my sins and all I have done wrong
God of mercy do you still walk by mounds where the great ones sleep
Boys in blue and boys in gray and their mothers’ tears beneath my feet
On the backroad to my soul I’m on the backroad to my soul
I’m on the long forgotten ruts of a wagon road
Long forgotten ruts of a wagon road
Jesus gonna take us all the way home
If I had it my way I’d never ride the tar again
Here is where you rise to meet me my soul my old friend!
I just want to lay down happy at my journey’s end
Wind is in the pine trees the only wind that’s ever been
On the backroad to my soul and the joy of a meadowlark
The whippoorwill after dark on a wagon road
Dancin’ to the sounds you never hear anymore
Oh Lord it’s what you made us for
On a wagon road
On the backroad to my soul, I’m on the backroad to my soul
I’m on the long forgotten ruts of a wagon road
Jesus gonna take us all the way home
Asphalt highway’s taken me far as I wanna go
©Charlotte Ryerson 2009