Here in Arkansas

Robert Earl Keen

[Verse 1]
The north wind blows a prairie fire
Across the open plain
A light shines on a granite stone
Where someone carved my name

[Chorus]
Sister, find the preacher-man
Daddy, call the law
Things have gotten out of hand
Here in Arkansas

[Verse 2]
An icy ring around the moon
A fire across the sky
They buried me this afternoon
And left me here to die

[Chorus]
Sister, find the preacher-man
Daddy, call the law
Things have gotten out of hand
Here in Arkansas

[Verse 3]
Sheriff Clark, Reverend, Friend
Missus Worthington
Told my family that I'd be the end
To all they've done

[Chorus]
Sister, find the preacher-man
Daddy, call the law
Things have gotten out of hand
Here in Arkansas

[Verse 4]
Mother raised the children
Daddy worked the farm
I was born the seventh son
Of the seventh-born

[Chorus]
Sister, find the preacher-man
Daddy, call the law
Things have gotten out of hand
Here in Arkansas

[Verse 5]
All the elders did decree
My soul to be unclean
They strapped me to a gurney
And gave me morphine

[Chorus]
Sister, find the preacher-man
Daddy, call the law
Things have gotten out of hand
Here in Arkansas

[Verse 6]
Sister walks into the night
And prays, my soul to save
And underneath the cold moonlight
She finds my open grave

[Chorus]
Sister, find the preacher-man
Daddy, call the law
Things have gotten out of hand
Here in Arkansas

[Outro]
The north wind blows a prairie fire
Here in Arkansas

Trivia about the song Here in Arkansas by Robert Earl Keen

When was the song “Here in Arkansas” released by Robert Earl Keen?
The song Here in Arkansas was released in 1993, on the album “A Bigger Piece of Sky”.

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