Old Crow Medicine Show - Look Away lyrics

I’m goin’ where the water rolls, Moses knows the way To my tin roof shanty by the railroad sign where the whistle blows for days Where the mountains bare the face, of an injun brave And the green fields fade such a beautiful gray Look away, look away Hear the homeward call of the mockingbird Gone to town just like a banjo ringin’ from a dime store curb See the sign on the cross, sayin’ “Brother ain’t you heard?” That this is the land where salvation ain’t a dirty word Cold bottled milk and honey mean more than a pocket full of money Oh Mama can you feel me drawin’ near? Been lovin’ you down through the years Even on the darkest days Look away, look away I’m goin’ where the cotton grows in rows of snowy bales Where a man and a mule don’t look much different to the boss man’s scale Where the long leaf pine hide a secret place That everybody knows what it looks like but can’t nobody see Cold bottled milk and honey mean more than a pocket full of money Oh Mama can you feel me drawin’ near? Keep lovin’ you down through the years Even on the darkest days I look away, I look away To that circle around the sun still spinnin’ and shinin’ over the Lee Highway I look away, I look away, Dixieland I’m goin’ where the water rolls, Moses knows the way To my old homestead where the lights I trimmed and burnin’ ’til day Where the singin’ river flows, and it knows every name Of a thousand years of footsteps chasin’ its wide domain Cold bottled milk and honey mean more than a pocket full of money Oh Mama can you feel me drawin’ near? Keep lovin’ you down through the years Even on the darkest days I look away, look away To that circle around the sun still spinnin’ and shinin’ over the Lee Highway Oh I look away, look away