Promised Land Lyrics

I hear the train across the lowlands

I guess it's what they call progress

Was born in the dust on a dirty wagon

Hard times raised me stronger than the stones

Pa was a pioneer who came around

He found his fortune wandering westbound

He met a sweetheart in West Virginia

They took together the Cumberland way

Run horse run, down in Texas

On the trail to the Promised Land

Run horse run, down in Texas

Follow your heart and never turn back

We settled by a slow running river

Where a few mads would have searched for gold

We'd rather a hurtin' back than the nuggets

We farmed the Land that the Lord gave us

I grew up faster than the others

Learning a lesson for my whole life

Early in bed, early to rise

Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

Run horse run, down in Texas

On the trail to the Promised Land

Run horse run, down in Texas

Follow your heart and never turn back

Now the years are flowing even faster

But not enough for my right hand

I shot a-many man, you can call it a sin

But you never know where life brings you in

In the end my dear I can tell you

Had such a good life in Amarillo

And I won't complain for sure

If in the great prairie will rest my soul.

Run horse run, down in Texas

On the trail to the Promised Land

Run horse run, down in Texas

follow your heart and never turn back