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South Side of Heaven
He got left behind back in ‘49 when he began to show his age
Not a man of the collar or an old school scholar just a student of the good Lord’s ways
Lived a humble life on a hill of pines, and cleansed his mortal sins
In a mountain brook, baptized by the book, and a bottle of slow gin
And he’d pray…
Save me a place on the south side of heaven,
Where the clouds are rollin’ just like cotton fields
I won't need a mansion made of gold
Just a fishin’ pole and an old dirt road
So when you decide this country man has done his share of livin’
Oh Lord, won't you send me to the south side of heaven
His fate came late in ‘68, when they said there was no hope
He’d lie awake and beneath the aches
Pray that God would call him home
His next of kin buried him in the fall of 69,
In the Tennessee hills ‘neath the whippoorwills
He didn’t say goodbye
He just said…
I’ll save you a place on the Southside of heaven,
Where the clouds are rollin’ just like cotton fields
I won't need a mansion made of gold,
Just a fishin’ pole and an old dirt road,
So when you decide this country man has done his share of livin’
Oh Lord, won't you send me to the south side of heaven
Now my daddy farms the promise land above the Dixie skies,
And when I leave this earth I know I'll see him on the other side
‘Cause he’ll save me a place on the Southside of heaven,
Where the clouds are rollin’ just like cotton fields
I won't need a mansion made of gold
Just a fishin’ pole and an old dirt road
So when you decide this country man has done his share of livin’
Oh Lord, won't you send me to the south side of heaven
