DESCRIPTION:
From the 2012 Andrew McKnight & Beyond Borders live CD/DVD "One Virginia Night"; available at http://andrewmcknight.net. Download the song free at http://andrewmcknight.bandcamp.com/track/safe-home-2 Film crew by Goose Creek Entertainment, video produced by Dustin Delage.
Andrew McKnight - lead vox, acoustic guitar • Stephanie Thompson - upright bass, harmony vox • Les Thompson - banjo • Lisa Taylor - drums, harmony vox

"Safe Home"
Words & music Andrew McKnight 2007©Catalooch Music, BMI

Verse 1
In the shadow of this dark mountain, where the sun but rarely shines
blessings fair, are hard to come by, in the cold black damp Kentucky mines

For there ain't nothing to hold our young ones, since this mountain's heart ran out of gold
there's no future here in this holler, so we wave when they leave down that road

Chorus
But the same moon shines wherever you are
So I'll listen when the night wind starts to moan
I'll light a candle when darkness falls
and pray til you're safe home

Verse 2
Mountain boys they love their country, and they never shy from a fight
but it's so hard, to let our daughters, answer the call to glory's light

For every mother hopes her children, will someday have more than she’s known,
but in these hard hills, hope is precious, and a better life is a gambler's throw

Chorus

Instrumental Verse
Instrumental Chorus

Verse 3
My only daughter gave her body, when duty called, to desert sands
now the bloodroot and dogwood blossoms, can't hide the work of war's evil hands

Chorus
But the same moon shines wherever you are
So I'll listen when the night wind starts to moan
I'll light a candle when darkness falls
and pretend, that you're safe home
Chorus