Live Oak is one of the most popular songs of the time. Live Oak lyrics were written by Jason Isbell. This song has sung by Jason Isbell
| Singer | Jason Isbell |
| Album | Southeastern |
| Released | 2013 |
| Tuning | E A D G B E |
Live Oak
There’s a man who walks beside me he is who I used to be
And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me
And I wonder who she’s pining for on nights I’m not around
Could it be the man who did the things I’m living down…
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I was rougher than the timber shipping out of Fond du Lac
When I headed south at seventeen, the sheriff on my back
I’d never held a lover in my arms or in my gaze
So I found another victim every couple days
But the night I fell in love with her, I made my weakness known
To the fighters and the farmers digging dusty fields alone
The jealous innuendos of the lonely-hearted men
Let me know what kind of country I was sleeping in…
*****
Well you couldn’t stay a loner on the plains before the war
When my neighbors took to slightin’ me, I had to ask what for
Rumors of my wickedness had reached our little town
Soon she’d heard about the boys I used to hang around
We’d robbed a great-lakes freighter, killed a couple of men aboard
When I told her, her eyes flickered like the sharp steel of a sword
All the things that she’d suspected, I’d expected her to fear
Was the truth that drew her to me when I landed here…
*****
There’s a man who walks beside me he is who I used to be
And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me
And I wonder who she’s pining for on nights I’m not around
Could it be the man who did the things I’m living down
Well I carved her cross from live oak and her box from short-leaf pine
And buried her so deep, she’d touch the water table line
And picked up what I needed and I headed south again
To myself, I wondered, “Would I ever find another friend”
There’s a man who walks beside her, he is who I used to be
And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me…
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