Powder Finger

[00:03.38] Look out, Mama, there's a white boat coming down the river

[00:10.98] With a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail

[00:19.88] I think you'd better call John

[00:22.11] 'Cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail

[00:29.01] And it's less than a mile away, I hope they didn't come to stay

[00:38.38] It's got numbers on the side and a gun and it's making big waves

[00:56.20] Daddy's gone, my brother's out hunting in the mountains

[01:04.35] Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmy Lou

[01:13.29] So the powers that be left me here to do all the thinking

[01:22.23] And I just turned twenty two, I was wondering what to do

[01:31.02] And the closer they get the more those feelings grew

[01:50.34] Daddy's rifle in my arms felt reassuring

[02:50.00] He told me, "Red means run, son, numbers add up to nothing"

[02:58.51] But when that first shot hit the dock, I saw it coming

[03:07.65] Raised the rifle to my eye, never stopped to wonder why

[03:16.25] Then I saw black and my face flashed in the sky

[03:34.54] Shelter me from the powder and the finger

[03:42.28] Cover me in the thought that pulled the trigger

[03:50.68] Just think of me as one you never figured

[03:59.85] To fade away so young, with so much left undone

[04:18.40] Remember me, to my love, I know I'll miss her