When I Stopped Runnin' I Was at Home

歌詞

Heard lots of talk of your hard times, I'm gonna tell you all about my own As I was travelling through South Carolina, right next to my home I got tired and worried, I thought that I would kneel in prayer And just as I said Amen, there stood a grizzly bear When I stopped runnin', b'lieve me, I was at home No more South Carolina will I ever roam Now me and this bear right down on the middle of the road Going so fast I got low as a toad When I stopped runnin', b'lieve me, I was at home When I went out chicken stealing, I thought that I would get me a Quail Up to the roost I'd see me out a Rooster, not his tail Down the road came a man, walking with a big shotgun Says: "I'm gonna take a shot at Pork-Chop, I want to see him run" When I stopped runnin', b'lieve me, I was at home No more stealing chicken, I'm gonna leave all fowls alone Now me and these buckshots in the middle of the air Going every place, well I didn't know where When I stopped runnin', b'lieve me, I was at home When I went out in a crap game, I see in a man called Bad Ben Soon as I heard him knock on the door, I knowed that trouble was sworn to begin I rolled my dice out on the floor, Ben, he snatches them up I says: "Kind friend, now them's my dice. Why don't you hand me an upper cut?" When I stopped runnin', b'lieve me, I was at home No more shooting dice, I'm gonna leave all bones alone Now me and Mr. Ben lashed over the back fence I've been skipping and dodging him ever since When I stopped runnin', b'lieve me, I was at home