O My Fathers Lyrics

I walk in shadows of my fathers' hands

Their fingerprints are etched upon this land

I ran it into dust cause that's where I'm meant to be

O my fathers, o my fathers

Don't look so harshly now on me

For I am field without farmer to tend me green

I am a ship without a harbor or safety to be seen

Through some careless word or Godless deed

I must have angered the sky and cursed the seed

So I prayed for rain for forty nights and days

And now in my dreams the water

Washes me into the gray

When the seasons change, I've half a mind

To leave this dusty valley far behind

But if I ride to California, Lord, would you ride with me?

I bet my old horse wouldn't get farther

Than the next county

Oh I am field without farmer to tend me green

I am a ship without a harbor or safety to be seen

And some nights I ponder

On how there's nowhere left to wander

Oh my God I'm trapped by endless sky

I walk in shadows of my fathers' hands

Their fingerprints are etched upon this land

I ran it into dust cause that's where I'm meant to be

O my fathers, o my fathers

Don't look so harshly now on me