Rest My Weary Body Lyrics

If the girl I love had the strength of an army

And the babies that she gave me always fed

If the world was not a knife

And suffering not life

I'd still rest my weary body on her bed

If I looked to every animate horizon

While shaking sleep and dreaming from my head

And if I heard bluebirds sing

The promise of most anything

I'd still rest my weary body on her bed

If my native land were not so strange and foreign

If I understood well anything that anybody said

If my hands could feel to grip

For the driftwood of a sinking ship

I'd still rest my weary body on her bed

If the sea can take the city of New Orleans

If the earth, and mud, and tide can claim the dying and the dead

Then there must be some way clear

A place where I could disappear

Till I rest my weary body on her bed