When I Leave Kentucky

WHEN I LEAVE KENTUCKY (C)
Dennis K Duff 2016

These mountain’s, these forest and fields these rivers that roam
Forged by the hand of God this land that I call home
I know I walk this hills only by God’s grace
I’d have to leave this world to find a better place

When I leave Kentucky
They’ll lay me in the ground
When I leave Kentucky
You’ll know I’m heaven bound

My roots run deep through the blood in my veins
They wrap around my restless soul with invisible chains
The voices of my past echo through the years
Right down to my last breath they’ll hold me here

When I leave Kentucky
They’ll lay me in the ground
When I leave Kentucky

Instrumental (verse)

When I leave Kentucky
They’ll lay me in the ground
When I leave Kentucky
You’ll know I’m heaven bound
You’ll know I’m heaven bound