kentucky stole my soul & nothing can bring it back
you give me everything you owe. you owe me a second act


[pre-chorus]
oh someday they will sell my grave
another acre they will pave & i need somebody to save me


[chorus]
oh i was a young man's son x2


the river, like the heart you break
forever takes the same old path

mistakes any man could make my father couldn't do the math

[pre]

& someday they will sell my name
every acre stays the same. i don't need anyone to blame me


[chorus]
oh i was a young man's son x2
the work here is never done


[bridge]
& we will stay true & pay all our dues

but if our best can't make it last
well my old man's already passed
i hope my children never ask

why their old man is always living in the past

[chorus]

oh i was a young man's son x2
the work here is never done
we work through the setting sun

these fields never get full grown
but i've got a son of my own