I'd Rather Be a Lonesome Pine
Blue Highway, 1998
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I'd rather be a fox with the hunters on his trail.
I'd rather be an old dog left to stray.
I'd rather have no one to come home to,
Than to live in love hurtin' day after day.
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I'd rather be a lonesome pine, way out on the ridge.
All alone blowin' in the wind and rain.
I'd rather be a homeless man, sleepin' underneath a railroad bridge.
Than to love a woman who only brings you pain
The farmer offers life and labor to the land,
With a gentle hand he tends the fertile ground.
And in the golden fields at harvest time,
I offered you my heart but you turned me down.