Silt and Smoke

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

Woke up in a mudflat shack

The river took the road again last night

Found my boots down by the waterline

Moss growing on the porch light

Pre-Chorus

Mama said the levee's thin

Mama said the levee's thin

Chorus

Lowland preacher calling me home

(Calling me home)

Down where the cypress never lets go

(Never lets go)

I been buried in the silt and the smoke

Lowland preacher calling me home

(Calling me home)

Verse 2

Uncle Roy kept a shotgun by the door

Said the gators got a taste for men

I carved my name in the old oak beam

Just so somebody would know I'd been

Pre-Chorus

Mama said the levee's thin

Mama said the levee's thin

Chorus

Lowland preacher calling me home

(Calling me home)

Down where the cypress never lets go

(Never lets go)

I been buried in the silt and the smoke

Lowland preacher calling me home

(Calling me home)

Guitar Solo

Bridge

I could run

I could run

I could sink beneath the mud

Where the water meets the blood

Chorus

Lowland preacher calling me home

(Calling me home)

Down where the cypress never lets go

(Never lets go)

I been buried in the silt and the smoke

Lowland preacher calling me home

(Calling me home)

Chorus

Lowland preacher calling me home

(Calling me home)

Sinking slow where the willow leans low

(Leans low)

I been buried in the silt and the smoke

Lowland preacher calling me home

(Calling me home)