"Elijah's Daughter" lyrics

Elijah was a farmer boy he did his growing on the plains
His mother and his father came to make their home beneath the rains
When dry and windy weather came upon a tractor he did ride
Black blizzards chased him to the sea, his mother and his father died

The city was hospitable to anyone who had a coin
Or held a pistol in their belt next to their spine and tenderloin
Elijah he had none of these and not a friend to call his own
But he longed to be a man of means now that his courage was full grown

He rode from door to door
From factory to factory floor
The legs of society
The state penitentiary

They came to take his body away
But it was gone by the dying of the day

A woman knew Elijah once, did all the carrying of his child
And her daughter ran away from her and never were they reconciled
And she rode across the country where our poor Elijah tilled the soil
How could she pay it any mind, she needed fresher ground to toil

She worked for a company
Flight of the bumblebee
Holding a wooden sign
Out on the picket line

They came to take her body away
But she was there til the dying of the day
They came to take her body away
She was there til the dying of the day

They came to take her body away
But she was there til the dying of the day
They came to take her body away
She was there til the dying of the day