The Gallows Lyrics

Father was a salesman

Who held on to his pride

His children bore his wisdom

And his woman by his side

Kept a gun under his dresser

Until the very day he died

Mother was a woman

Who married in her prime

She kept her heart of steel

Just to make it through the times

Had a Bible in her pillow

Until the very day she died

And I'm no man of faith

These hands I keep are safe

But I've stayed quiet for way too long

And I've been singing the same damn song

And God ain't on my side

Singing he's not my maker tonight

Brother had a widow

Who married without shame

A lady of the country

And the south was in her veins

Oh, she clung to all his letters

Until the very day she died

But I'm a man of shame

These hands I keep are safe

And I've stayed quiet for way too long

And I've been singing the same damn song

And God ain't on my side

No, God ain't on my side

I said God ain't on my side

Singing he's not my maker

No, he's not my maker tonight