Blood on the Road
(c) May 2006, Rev Mar 2007, Rebecca Dale Peaden (BMI) / Marchetti (BMI)
In the height of the Great Depression
In a small town in Alabam
Best friends and teenage cousins
Picked cotton till sundown
Well, Billy had a bad temper
And carried a switchblade knife
Evenings Stancel picked guitar
Billy'd drink and look for a fight
Chorus:
So much blood on the road
My God how it flowed
Some say that the stain's still there
And sometimes his ghost
Says the Lord's Prayer
Near the blood on the road
Blood...
Billy heard Stancel'd serenaded
His girl under the stars last night
Billy still in a drunken state
Hunted Stancel in the morning light
Stancel was homesick for Atlanta
So he'd left before the sun came up
Played his music by the highway
As he waited for the Greyhound bus
Chorus:
So much blood on the road
My God how it flowed
Some say that the stain's still there
And sometimes his ghost
Says the Lord's Prayer
Near the blood on the road
Blood....
1/2 Verse:
Stancel was sitting by the oak tree
When Billy said hed come to say goodbye
When he hugged him one last time
Billy laid him open with his knife
Chorus:
So much blood on the road
My God how it flowed
Some say that the stain's still there
And sometimes his ghost
Says the Lord's prayer
Near the blood on the road
Blood....
Near the blood on the road
Blood...
Bridge:
Next day when Billy sobered up
Couldnt believe what he had done
Cried till his eyes were swollen shut
In a Brookwood jail hot as the sun
Chorus:
So much blood on the road
My God how it flowed
Some say that the stain's still there
And sometimes his ghost
Says the Lord's prayer
Near the blood on the road
Blood....
Near the blood on the road
Blood...
