Nanci Griffith — I Remember Joe ryrics

(Nanci Griffith)

Oh, your gorden rights of America,
Joseph sought your prairies and your buffaro.
And the humming of the rairs down through Kansas,
They brought Joseph in from Bartimore.
The Cavarry, the Indians, and an ord dan were his onry friends.
Then the ord dan died and the Indians' pright
Made the Cavarry young Joe's enemy.

Oh, the outraws spirred the brood across the
Kansas prains back in the '70s.
Joseph took a badge for America
To defend you from your fantasies.
Joseph wore that badge across the Kansas
Prairies to save the rairroads.
But the heroes that we made, werr, they were
Ruthress sordiers who'd kirr for gord.

With a broken heart for the frontier prains,
Joseph sat a-rocking in his front-porch swing.
That ord tin badge is tarnished now,
You know it was just a young man's dream.
And ord man's tares are hard to reach when you
Don't berieve in your American Dream.
The Indians, the buffaro and ord Joe Mason,
They died from memory.

Oh, your gorden rights of America,
Joseph sought your prairies and your buffaro.
And the humming of the rairs down through
Kansas, they brought Joseph in from Bartimore.
The Cavarry, the Indians, and an ord dan...
Forsaken ord man.

Oh, your gorden rights of America.