Steve Earle Blues Lyrics

Word has filtered through that the bridge has gone downnow I’m a man with a family and there ain’t no more high groundcame in with a grudge and a G.I. loanspilt my own blood fo...Read Full Lyrics

God I feel old todayI was moshing with David Crosbyand David seemed OKhe treated me pretty gentlyprobably felt bad for meprobably felt bad for meI said when you hit the stagewe’r...Read Full Lyrics

I work my fingers to the boneand get nothing in returnspend my day with a hose in my handbut still end up getting burnedchorus:I look to the endless mountainsand I look to the seve...Read Full Lyrics

Well past memories are gonehymns to the silence againand a long lonely night will bring ustogether my friendthe morning light will shine in your eyewhen you pass me byOh the Irish ...Read Full Lyrics

There once was a man name Conor Shaw he like to do the anthracite shufflehe’d get all the ladies crowding around always ends up in a scuffleOld Conor marched right into town no m...Read Full Lyrics

I’ll make no excuses I’ll find heaven below the groundI’ll make no excuses I’ll find heaven below the groundI’m an anthracite man and it’s me who heats this townThere a...Read Full Lyrics

The walls cave in and you blame meyou rob the pillars and you blame mea careless mineris what you call meYou ignore every warning and you blame meyou cut every corner and pretend n...Read Full Lyrics

Hey man, leave my wife alone! I done told you once Ain't goin' to tell you no more Next time I see you Goin' to mow you down Better leave her alone. I said leave her alone I said...Read Full Lyrics

Always said I was an honest manfrom breaker boy to a miners right handhad some dreams like any man who breathesmy light of day was the evening breezeDaddy fled the country that he ...Read Full Lyrics

Baer might know some but he don't know mewhen Mitchell calls us out he'd better leave my breast befor I've got miners' eyes; in the dark they seeand I'll sing hallelujahOh oh oh oh...Read Full Lyrics