I have sailed the seven seas
I've severed all my ties
I ain't nobody's darlin'
Says the blue within my eyes
I was born a western storm
On waves I was raised
Collected shells for wishing wells
Down where my pennys lay
Mother carry me
I give my words to you
Brother won't you bury me
And tell my story true
The greatest one I've ever known
Is the one of my body, my heart and my home
I'm carvin' all the mountains tall
With verses and rhyme
I've sung about my secrets
To every single pine
Dawn to dusk, I said I must
Keep the tales as high
As treason in the roses
And the rebels in the rye
Mother carry me
I give my words to you
Brother won't you bury me
And tell my story true
The greatest one I've ever known
Is the one of my body, my heart and my home
When my time is over
The earth will come to drain
The grace within my hillside
And the starlight in my veins
I've sailed the seven seas
I've severed all my ties
I ain't nobody's darlin
Says the blue within my eyes
Mother carry me
I give my words to you
Brother won't you bury me
And tell my story true
The greatest one I've ever known
Is the one of my body, my heart and my home
