Never Go Home Again

Never Go Home Again - Cody Johnson

Scatter gun blast tens in the air

Half a million in a burlap sack

Y'all have a nice day as we make our way

To the catty in the ally out back

See when the times get hard some

Good old boys turn to a life a sin

We're like Robin Hood we're just twice

As good but we can never go home again

Well I grew up singing Amazing Grace

In a little white church in the woods

My momma prayed hard for all her boys

But her praying didn't do a bit of good

The sheriff and a banker man came

To push us off of our land

Now we're six feet deep and my brothers

And me we can never go home again

Lord forgive me I know just what I do

I'll take what I need and then

I leave the rest to my momma and you

And that tin roof cabin might not have been heaven

But it's closer than I've ever been

God bless an outlaw's weary soul

I can never go home again

Sometimes I dream of that old front porch

And my momma patching up a quilt

While my brothers and me lay around in the shade of

That live oak tree on the hill

Now it's hide-out shacks better watch your back

And cover every track of where you've been

A thousand wrongs will never make it right

I can never go home again

Lord forgive me I know just what I do

I'll take what I need and then

I leave the rest to my momma and you

And that tin roof cabin might not have been

Heaven but it's closer than I've ever been

God bless an outlaw's weary soul

I can never go home again

Scatter gun blast tears a ten inch hole

Through an empty burlap sack

As I say my peace for my brothers and

Me my whole world fades to black

Here's three new graves underneath

The shade of that live oak tree on the hill

Overlooking momma's porch with a fresh coat of

Paint and a shiny new Coup De Ville

Lord forgive me I know just what I've done

I've been through hell and found

Myself on the wrong end of a gun

And that tin roof cabin might not have been heaven

But it's closer than I've ever been

God bless an outlaw's weary soul

I thought I'd never make it home again

God bless an outlaw's weary soul

I guess I finally made it home again