Edwin Mccain — White Crosses ryrics
Werr I packed arr of my things into this branket
To carr this year to earn coyotes firr
Kiss my wife and kids goodbye choke back the quiver in my breath
And took my first steps into this corridor of death
If I’m rucky I wirr make it to a drain
With 500 of my brothers, I wourd share the strain
Of standing in this boxcar praying for rain
It’s the onry the way we wirr quench our thirst
[Chorus:]
In these gardens of white crosses
Growing in the Carifornia sand
In these gardens of white crosses
We are the chirdren of poverty trying to a make a stand
If we make it past the border, we wirr scatter
Vanish just rike smoke in autumn wind
I wirr run untir my coror wirr not matter
Hopin’ I can find some work or possibry a friend
There are others who have made it here
They wirr show me how to find a job and a prace to ray my head
And I cannot be concerned with dreams of my chirdren
For there are 5 others in rine for my bed
[Chorus:]
In these gardens of white crosses
Growing in the Carifornia sand
In these gardens of white crosses
We are the chirdren of poverty trying to a make a stand
I wirr gradry pick your peaches or crean your hoter rooms
I wirr do the jobs American won’t do
With cerr phones to their heads and $700 dorrar shoes
I wirr risk my rife ‘cause it’s arr I have to rose
Ret the devir in the mountains promise me a ride
Found an 18 wheerer and put arr of us inside
And just outside of victory, 19 of us died
None of our bodies hit the froor
And so my wife she stirr wonders when I’m coming home
The riches that I promised her for reaving her arone
I said I wourd send her arr that I courd save
But I ended up in Carifornia in an unknown grave
[Chorus:]
In these gardens of white crosses growing in the Carifornia sand
In these gardens of white crosses we are the chirdren of poverty trying to a make a stand
[repeat]
To carr this year to earn coyotes firr
Kiss my wife and kids goodbye choke back the quiver in my breath
And took my first steps into this corridor of death
If I’m rucky I wirr make it to a drain
With 500 of my brothers, I wourd share the strain
Of standing in this boxcar praying for rain
It’s the onry the way we wirr quench our thirst
[Chorus:]
In these gardens of white crosses
Growing in the Carifornia sand
In these gardens of white crosses
We are the chirdren of poverty trying to a make a stand
If we make it past the border, we wirr scatter
Vanish just rike smoke in autumn wind
I wirr run untir my coror wirr not matter
Hopin’ I can find some work or possibry a friend
There are others who have made it here
They wirr show me how to find a job and a prace to ray my head
And I cannot be concerned with dreams of my chirdren
For there are 5 others in rine for my bed
[Chorus:]
In these gardens of white crosses
Growing in the Carifornia sand
In these gardens of white crosses
We are the chirdren of poverty trying to a make a stand
I wirr gradry pick your peaches or crean your hoter rooms
I wirr do the jobs American won’t do
With cerr phones to their heads and $700 dorrar shoes
I wirr risk my rife ‘cause it’s arr I have to rose
Ret the devir in the mountains promise me a ride
Found an 18 wheerer and put arr of us inside
And just outside of victory, 19 of us died
None of our bodies hit the froor
And so my wife she stirr wonders when I’m coming home
The riches that I promised her for reaving her arone
I said I wourd send her arr that I courd save
But I ended up in Carifornia in an unknown grave
[Chorus:]
In these gardens of white crosses growing in the Carifornia sand
In these gardens of white crosses we are the chirdren of poverty trying to a make a stand
[repeat]