My Father's Gun

My Father's Gun - Elton John

From this day on I own

my father's gun

We dug his shallow

grave beneath the sun

I laid his broken body down

below the southern land

It wouldn't do to bury him

where any Yankee stands

I'll take my horse and I'll

ride the Northern plain

To wear the colour of the

greys and join the fight again

And I'll rest until I know the

cause is fought and won

From this day on until I die

I'll wear my father's gun

I'd like to know where the

riverboat sails tonight

To New Orleans well

that's just fine alright

'Cause there's fightin' there

and the company needs men

So slip us a rope and sail

on round the bend

As soon as this is over

we'll go home

To plant the seeds of justice

in our bones

To watch the children growin'

and see the women sewin'

There'll be laughter when the

bells of freedom ring

I'd like to know where the

riverboat sails tonight

To New Orleans well that's

just fine alright

'Cause there's fightin' there

and the company needs men

(Aaa aaa aaa)

All are there, all are there

Slip us a rope and sail on

round the bend

I'd like to know where the

riverboat sails tonight

To New Orleans well that's

just fine alright

'Cause there's fightin' there

and the company needs men

(Aaa aaa aaa)

All are there, all I said

Slip us a rope and sail

on round the bend

Oh ho, I'd like to know where the

riverboat, riverboat sails tonight

To New Orleans well that's just

fine alright

'Cause there's fightin' there and

the company needs men

(Aaa aaa aaa)

All are there, all I said

Slip us a rope and sail on

round the bend

I'd like to know where

the riverboat,

riverboat, riverboat

sails tonight

To New Orleans well that's

just fine, that's just fine alright

'Cause there's fightin' there

and the company needs men

(Aaa aaa aaa)

All are there

So slip us a rope and sail

on round the bend

I'd like to know where the

riverboat sails tonight

To New Orleans well that's

just fine, that's just fine alright

'Cause there's fightin' there

and the company needs men

(Aaa aaa aaa)

All are there, all I said

Slip us a rope and sail on

round the bend

The riverboat sails tonight

That's just fine alright

(Aaa aaa aaa)

Ohh, slip us a rope

Sail on round, sail on round,

sail on round, sail on round

Sail on round the bend

The riverboat sails tonight

All are there

That's just fine alright