Salty South

Mister pull up a chair

I got time for tears

Tell me all the stories that you never did

Of the salty south

The Seminoles held out

While Geronimo died in a lonely jail

A thousand tides, and

A thousand waves

Takin' it all away

It'll come back in

We'll be gone by then

And it's a miracle we ever learned to live

Drain that land

For a better plan

Sugarcane and the civil man

But now the ringin' dead them pines

Planted in that time

We gonna keep on killin' till they get it right

A thousand tides, and

A thousand waves

Takin' it all away

It'll come back in

We'll be gone by then, oh

And it's a miracle we ever learned to live

I remember the wind

As it was settlin'

And every sun goin' down was a picture then

But we look back at 'em framed

They all look the same

There's no sense of time, no sense of pain

A thousand tides, and

A thousand waves

Takin' it all away

And it'll come back in

We'll be gone by then, oh

And it's a miracle we ever learned to give