Old Crow Medicine Show - Levi lyrics

Born up on the blue ridge, at the Carolina line Baptized on the banks of the new river Brought up on bluegra** and clear moonshine And tough as iron but a heart soft as leather Levi, lord, lord, lord, they shot him down Ten thousand miles from a southern town Oh, Levi Like a fire on the mountain, running wild in those days Playing knights of the golden horseshoe And Indian raids Now it's parachutes and combat boots And camouflaged airplanes And a country boy who don't belong In the desert anyway Levi, lord, lord, lord, they shot him down Ten thousand miles from a southern town Oh, Levi Well the sandbox sure gets lonesome And it's a hundred and nine degrees Singing carry me back to Virginia Lord I'm down here on my knees In the market square while the bells were ringing Loud to fill the air Levi gazed his eyes out, through the rocket's glare Beyond the desert and the ocean To the furthest fields of home And when the bullets pierced his body He was already gone Levi, lord, lord, lord, they shot him down Ten thousand miles from a southern town Oh, Levi, lord, lord, lord, they shot him down Oh, Levi, oh Levi.