Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)

Way back in my memory, there's a scene that I recall Of a little run down cabin in the woods Where my daddy never promised that our blue moon would turn gold But he lay awake nights wishing that it would When the world was on our radio, hard work was on our minds We lived our day to day and plain dirt fashion With ol' overalls and cotton balls all scrapped across your back Man, It's hard to make believe ain't nothing wrong But mama kept the Bible read And daddy kept our family fed And somewhere in between I must have grown 'Cause someday I was dreamin' That a song that I was singing takes me down the road to where I wanna go Now I know, it's a long hard road Sometimes I remember when I stay up late at night When the saddle came, we got up and went And the shadows of a workin' day Our moonlight hour spent singing songs along with grandma's radio Now I've beaten down an old blacktop road And sleepin' in a sack Living up my memories all in vain 'Cause those city lights ain't all that bright Compared to what it's like To see lightning bugs go dancing in the rain Mama played the guitar then And daddy made the saw blade bend And raindrops played the tin roof like a drum But I just kept on dreaming that a song that I was singing Takes me down a road to where my name is known Now I'm gone and it's a long, hard road Yes, I know it's a long hard road