The Old Roots

The Old Roots

(written by Craig Bickhardt and Jack Sundrud)

When the spirit of place calls

Time gives you a strange pause

Like misty returnings

Up the stream of days

Where I lived among good folks

Who sheltered like tall oaks

My tender and green ways

Till I came of age



Chorus:

The old roots, the old roots

Carry me back to my old roots

With old clay on my boots

I’ll never stray far from the old roots



Wind’s tossing me gently

On the branches of memory

Sweet cradle of kinship

Rocks me in my dreams

The old house is still standing

The old Harvester’s planting

The old stones are all gathered

Where the willow leans



(Repeat Chorus)



Do do do do, The old roots

Carry me back to my old roots

Do do do do, the old roots

I’ll never stray far from the old roots


Copyright 2013 Stone Barn Music (ASCAP) and Omarnirma Music (BMI)


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