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Rootless Seed
M. Litton

Daddy was a soldier, momma was a flower-child
She believed in peace and love, but only for awhile
He came home form the army but could not leave the war
I was just a boy of five when he left and slammed the door...
I’d see him out on the street sometimes, he’d hand me a buck or two
Say, “You’re the son of a rootless seed...”
And that’s just how I grew
A rootless seed...

He’d set his boots by the bedpost, hang his hat on a nail
Come to her like a shadow, leave that old whiskey smell
I hated him for comin’, you know I hated to see him go
Just why she let him in her bed was a thing I could not know...
I stood alone at her grave in the winter of ’91
She died of a cancer while he was on the bum
Like a rootless seed...

A rootless seed ain’t got no soul to save
A rootless seed will find a shallow grave
A rootless seed goes whichever way the wind blows the leaves
A rootless seed...

I heard he was out in Denver, in jail in New Orleans
The last I heard he was working a boat smuggling off the Keys
I look to every sunrise, I look to the moonlit night
I look to find a path that’ll lead me through this life...
I drift on down the byroads, I ride the empty freights
Face ash, dust, cinder smoke, the wind, snow, and rain
I’m a rootless seed...

A rootless seed ain’t got no soul to save
A rootless seed will find a shallow grave
A rootless seed goes whichever was the wind blows the leaves
A rootless seed...

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I'm a creekbank ghetto boy. Began my singin' near half a century ago in Canada, then hit northeast, down thru Nashville, Austin, out to Colorado and back to Kansas where I started out and will likely remain. My influences are Leadbelly, Jimmie Rodgers, CCR and The Band, while the juices of a hundred others flavor my music, not to mention the devil himself if that's what it takes to make a song... ... more

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