Red Dirt Road

Margie Carmichael © May/1993 

 

Oh the red dirt road wasn't easy travelling

especially early in the spring

Mud to the belly made many turn back -

forget about planning anything

People got their horses out and graded it themselves

they didn't need a road machine

They didn't need politicians to improve the conditions

and the grass grew green

 

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On the red dirt road

The red dirt road

On the red dirt road

 

Riding to the ceilidhs, dropping in on the neighbors

church on sunday too

never made strangers of the people next door

like these times tend to do

The doctor came by when anyone was sick,

half the time he never got a cent

Yeah the red dirt road made neighbors of us all

and we were all content

 

Then the auto was invented, the horses were tormented

and everybody started giving in

Soon a lot of them were driving fancy little rigs

and they were sporting their expensive little grins

They widened all the ruts, they raised a lot of dust

that settled on the wagon and the sleigh

When the red dirt road wasn't coping with the load

they paved it away

 

I grew up on a red dirt road

My feet got tough on a red dirt road

I fell in love on a red dirt road 

 

the red dirt road ... mud oozes through your toes

the red dirt road ... take your sweetie for a stroll

the red dirt road ... say hello to uncle Joe

                  

the red dirt road ... clip clopping

the red dirt road ... hip-hopping of the hare

the red dirt road ... I'm wishing I was there

  

the red dirt road ... drip-dropping of the rain

the red dirt road ... flip-flopping of the mane

the red dirt road ... I'm coming home again  

 

the red dirt road ...slap-slapping in the heat

the red dirt road ... swat-swatting in the heat

the red dirt road ... hey, mosquitos gotta eat