Levi

Born up on the

Blue Ridge

At the Carolina line

Baptised on the banks of the

New River

Brought up on the bluegrass

And the clear moonshine

Yeah, tough as iron but a heart as soft as leather

Leevi Like a fire on the mountain

Runnin' wild in those days

Playin' Knights of the

Gold Horseshoe and

Indian raids

Huntin' jackvine in the summertime

And in the fall it was ginseng

Yeah, a country boy don't belong in the desert anyway

Leevi Lord,

Lord, Lord they shot him down

Ten thousand miles from a

Southern town

Oooooooh,

Leevi From

Galax to Bagdhad

On a camouflaged airplane

Where it was a hundred-nineteen degrees for twenty days straight

Shoved off in the sandbox

In a rollin'

Hum-Vee Cryin'

Daddy, Daddy this don't look like

Virginia to me

Leevi Lord,

Lord, Lord they shot him down

Ten thousand miles from a

Southern town

Oooooooh,

Leevi In the market square all the bells

Were ringin' loud to fill the air

Leevi gazed his eyes out through the rocket glare

Through the desert and the ocean

To the furthest fields of home

And when the bullets pierced his body, he was already gone

Leevi Lord,

Lord, Lord they shot him down

Ten thousand miles from a

Southern town

Oooooooh,

Leevi Oooooooh,

Leevi Lord,

Lord, Lord they shot him down

Ten thousand miles from a

Southern town

Oooooooh,

Leevi Oooooooh,

Lord, Lord,

Leevi Oooooooh,

Lord, Leevi