Killed by Dying

**slow fiddle intro**

**intro**

I don’t want to lay down in the dead grass

And the broken glass

And the frat boy trash

Cause I got a memory that’s fading to ash

**verse 1**

There’s a house on the hill and a black bird on the sill

In the field where cows used to graze

There’s a man named Stan and his nephew called Dipper

Why does Mabel look so afraid?

**Fiddle solo**

**verse 2**

In the hog water shed that my daddy did build

Water runs through to feed the farm and the mill

His own hands and Will, his blood, sweat, and tears

Days of his labor for his family to eat a square meal

**Accordion solo**

**verse 3**

My father was a righteous farmer, and he always lived for the Lord

We read the Bible each night, and he taught us what was right

For there would be evil outside the door

** fiddle solo**

**verse 4**

Mommas used to hang the laundry

The line swayed in the breeze

Us children played in the fields

Dirt and grass on our knees

Now us children have grown

Like the seeds our fathers had sewn

We till the golden land

And before the altar we stand

**Accordion solo**

**outro**

**male and female harmonies**

So tell me, dear lover

Did you hang your head and cry

When the soul of your mother

Did take off to the sky

**fiddle, violin and accordion outro**