Pistol Pete Wearn & the Wildwood Flowers - Redemption Lyrics

Well it ain't your forty acres it's my grandpa's farm
Taken from him by Sherman's arm
It's the place
Where I used to play
Until some blowhard yankee took my birthright away

We're just looking for redemption
Some place for free determination
I woke up and it's just not my nation
No place for a man like me anymore

After two years in Elmira got my ticket home
Headed back to a life that's gone
I had to take off the patches
But I still wear my grey
I'm holed up in a shack and living from day to day

We're just looking for redemption
Some place for free determination
I woke up and it's just not my nation
No place for a man like me anymore

Those carpetbaggers in the statehouse couldn't give a damn
They're all worshipping the wrong Abraham
They sold off the railroads
Where we might have got paid
They just quarrel and quibble as the Blood Stained Banner fades

We're just looking for redemption
Some place for free determination
I woke up and it's just not my nation
No place for a man like me anymore

Headed up to the plantation with a few good men
Guys I've known since way back when
You know we figure
There's a lesson needs learned
We're going to build us a fire and watch those free men burn

We're going to build us a fire and watch those free men burn
We're going to build us a fire and watch those free men burn