No One Cried When I Died - Dark Country Slow

Intro Eight people came to bury me. Two of 'em were paid.

Verse 1 The preacher kept it under ten The digger kept his spade They sang one round of Amazing Grace Thin as morning ice Nobody took the low part 'Cause nobody knew mine My brother checked his phone twice And the clouds never changed their minds

Chorus No one cried when I died Not a tear hit the pine I kept the world at a fence line And the world kept me at mine The preacher praised a stranger The wind kept better time No one cried when I died And I earned every dry eye

Verse 2 I wasn't cruel, I was just closed Like a mine when the vein runs out Still deep, still dark, still standing Just nothing left to bring up I loved a few in my own way From across a gravel road Cash in unsigned envelopes That's as close as I ever got

Chorus No one cried when I died Not a tear hit the pine I kept the world at a fence line And the world kept me at mine The preacher praised a stranger The wind kept better time No one cried when I died And I earned every dry eye

Bridge But when the eight had gone their ways One man stayed behind Work boots, forty-some, hat in his hands Standing where the dirt meets pine I knew him then - the Ratliff boy I pulled him from the Cane in '99 Made him swear to never tell And he kept that vow of mine And he cried Lord, he cried Twenty-six years of thank-you Coming down on that fresh-turned ground One man cried when I died One was all it took One tear on a fence-line life Can balance the whole book So preacher, keep your sermon Wind, keep your own time One man cried when I died And I'd live the same dry life twice

Outro Turns out one is plenty. One was always plenty.

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