Red Dirt Road Lyrics

Red Dirt Road

I was raised off of Route Three,
Out where the blacktop ends.
We'd walk to
Church on Sunday mornings,
Race barefoot back to Johnson's fence.
That's
where I first saw Mary,
On that roadside pickin' blackberries.
That
summer I turned a corner in my soul,
Down that red dirt road.

It's
where I drank my first beer.
It's where I found Jesus.
Where I wrecked my
first car:
I tore it all to pieces.
I learned the path to Heaven,
Is
full of sinners an' believers.
Learned that happiness on earth,
Ain't
just for high achievers.
I've learned; I come to know,
There's life at
both ends,
Of that red dirt road.

Her Daddy didn't like me
much,
In my shackled up GTO.
Oh, I'd sneak out in the middle of the
night,
Throw rocks at her bedroom window.
We'd turn out the
headlights,
Drive by the moonlight.
Talk about what the future might
hold,
Down that red dirt road.

It's where I drank my first
beer.
It's where I found Jesus.
Where I wrecked my first car:
I tore
it all to pieces.
I learned the path to Heaven,
Is full of sinners an'
believers.
Learned that happiness on earth,
Ain't just for high
achievers.
I've learned; I come to know,
There's life at both ends,
Of
that red dirt road.

Instrumental break.

I went out into the
world,
An' I came back in.
I lost Mary:
Oh, I got her back
again.
An' drivin' home tonight,
Feels like I've found a long-lost
friend.

It's where I drank my first beer.
It's where I found
Jesus.
Where I wrecked my first car:
I tore it all to pieces.
I
learned the path to Heaven,
Is full of sinners an' believers.
Learned
that happiness on earth,
Ain't just for high achievers.
I've learned; I
come to know,
There's life at both ends,
Of that red dirt road.