Freedom Road Lyrics

When the world's on fire and your burden

Has taken on a mind of its own

Cool your skin in the river

And follow on down Freedom Road

When I was a child I met a ragged man

Who kept his money in a pocket full of holes

Said you can travel light, child, if you travel right

Set your feet always on Freedom Road

Freedom Road – its stones they won't cut your feet

Freedom Road – its pavement won't blister in the heat

Freedom Road – takes you on in to the Promised Land

Freedom Road – carry me home

Well, the wild roses fill up your senses

And a loving sun warms your tender skin

Farmers' crops in the fields show a bountiful yield

'Cause they grow alongside Freedom Road

There's a tire swing in a sturdy oak tree

Beside a farmhouse that needs a coat of paint

The kitchen door stands forever open

To the travelers who find Freedom Road

Freedom Road – its stones they won't cut your feet

Freedom Road – its pavement won't blister in the heat

Freedom Road – takes you on in to the Promised Land

Freedom Road – carry me home

When the sun lays down in a copper sky

And you know you're at a journey's end

Tell that brakeman you ain't riding no further on his line

Jump that train as it crosses Freedom Road

Freedom Road – its stones they won't cut your feet

Freedom Road – its pavement won't blister in the heat

Freedom Road – takes you on in to the Promised Land

Freedom Road – carry me home