Drought County

Lyrics/Music: Don de Leaumont

A million things, are weighing down my mind.

It’s been so long that I stopped keeping time.

Life, it seems, is withered all around.

It’s been to long since rain has kissed the ground.

The cash crops, are turning way too brown.

We’ll never see the green come back around.

Talked to my neighbors, just the other day.

Might loose it all if change don’t come our way.

I close my eyes and I sing….

Chorus:

          Drought county wishing for a change.

I wonder what we ever did.

          Drought county Carolina Pain.

Raise our heads and close our eyes, and wish for rain.

Some wish for silver, some wish for gold.

Me, I’m just wishing for my land to grow.

We beg for mercy, we kick the ground

To wake the gods and bring the rain back down.

And I shake my fists at the sky.

Chorus:

          Drought county wishing for a change. 

I wonder what we ever did.

          Drought county Carolina Pain.

          Raise our heads and close our eyes, and wish for rain.

Day turns into night, and night to day.

With every passing one we kneel and pray.

Some curse the heavens, and damn the skies.

If there’s a god why can’t he hear our cries?

And I feel my faith wash away.

Chorus:

          Drought county wishing for a change. 

I wonder what we ever did.

          Drought county Carolina Pain.

          Raise our heads and close our eyes, and wish for rain.