Another Wingless Bird Lyrics

I drank from the barrel up in Bowling Green

I floated on water on the Riverboat Queen

I’ve loved every town in this country I’ve seen

From the Blue Ridge to the Redwood Valley

I picked up the banjo up in Wichita

I picked though the cotton in East Arkansas

I stayed south ‘til spring ‘til the north ground would thaw

‘Til the wintertime’s grand finale

My mother made me promise

When I was seventeen

That I’d never risk it all

For something fickle

As a dream

But I couldn’t keep my feet pinned

And I couldn’t keep my word

So I took to the road

And the creeks and streams that flowed

But I couldn’t fly

Cos I

Was born

Another wingless bird

I saw the smoke rise from those Kentucky mines

I wore out my soles as I crossed county lines

But I never called home with my nickels and dimes

I just kept them warm ‘tween my fingers

I wandered the plains and I wandered the hills

I wandered through ghost towns with forgotten mills

And I felt like a ghost and it gave me the chills

When you’re gone still the memory lingers

My mother made me promise

When I just a child

That I’d never leave the nest

For things uncertain, vague, and wild

But I couldn’t keep my feet pinned

And I couldn’t keep my word

So I took to the road

And the creeks and streams that flowed

But I couldn’t fly

Cos I

Was born

Another wingless bird

No I’ll never fly

Cos I

Was born

Another wingless bird