Artist/Band: Earle Steve Tabs
Song: Elijah's Church Tab
[D] [G]
Elijah came to Texas to find his family a home
[D] [G]
With his wife and new baby, and what little goods that they owned
[D] [G]
Had a good yoke of oxen, hand tools for clearin' the land
[A] [A7] [D]
And he built him a church, cuz he was a God-Fearin' man
[D] [G]
All of his children and heirs worshipped there through the years
[D] [G]
On down through my Grandad, and he's buried about 40 yards from here
[D] [G]
It's where I was baptized, where I took me a wife
[A] [A7] [D]
And if I have my say so, that's where I'll rest when it's time
[D]
When I'm dead and I'm gone, Won't you carry me home
[G] [D]
To that little white church in my daddy's hometown
[D]
Lord knows I'm some kind of sinner
[Em] [A]
But I've done come this far and it's too late for changin'
[D]
When this race has been run, take me back where I came from
[Bm] [A]
Let me return what I took from the ground
[G] [D]
When this body won't carry me no further
[A7] [D]
Take me home, and lay me down
[D] [G]
That ol' East Texas red dirt won't grow much of nothin' they say
[D] [G]
'cept tomatoes and peaches, most drill for oil nowadays
[D] [G]
This ol' hired hand named Reagan first made me understand
[A] [A7] [D]
And he told me the red was the blood of my kin in the land
[D]
When I'm dead and I'm gone, Won't you carry me home
[G] [D]
To that little white church in my daddy's hometown
[D]
Lord knows I'm some kind of sinner
[Em] [A]
But I've done come this far and it's too late for changin'
[D]
When this race has been run, take me back where I came from
[Bm] [A]
Let me return what I took from the ground
[G] [D]
When this body won't carry me no further
[A7] [D]
Take me home, and lay me down
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