"I Am Bluegrass" lyrics
Michael Cleveland, Wyatt Ellis, Del McCoury & Ricky Skaggs Lyrics
(feat. Brooke Aldridge, Ronnie Bowman, Dale Ann Bradley, Gena Britt, Jesse Brock, Sam Bush, Larry Cordle, Kristy Cox, Rebecca Frazier, Doyle Lawson, C.J. Lewandowski, Bob Minner, Joe Mullins, Jerry Salley & Vickie Vaughn)
I'm the spirit of the wayfaring stranger
That crossed the great divide
And borne the music of the mountains
Through the Appalachians far and wide
I'm the words about the hills of Roane County
Melodies flowing like a mountain stream
I'm the song about a Blue Moon of Kentucky
The fiddles and banjos in a young man's dreams
I'm an old home place on a hillside
And how mountain girls can love
I'm dark as the night and blue as the day
And the mourning voice of a white dove
I am young, I am old
I'm the stories that are told
With ancient tones still ringing from the past
I am Bluegrass
From the airwaves of Nashville and Southwest Ohio
Bringing songs to light a weary way
I am found in the voices of the prophets
Of a music ever-changing yet still the same
I'm the model church in the country
Unbroken circles of praises heard
The Sunday songs of faith and redemption
Crying holy unto the Lord
I'm a Georgia mule and country boy fading fast away
On the sunny side of the mountain
I'm a Wise-man with love letters in the sand
And footprints in the snow not forgotten
I am tried, I am true
I am the music that lives in you
My father was Big Mon I was made to last
I am Bluegrass
I'm the lonesome lines in a lyric
Leading to roads mighty dark to travel
A tapestry of the music you made me
That the walls of time can't unravel
I'm a Lonesome River Lost & Found
Rarely Herd and Seldom Scene
I am Newgrass, New South, Old and In The Way
Carolina blue in my dreams
I'm the angel of Union Station
The Opry queen with a mandolin
Daughters of Bluegrass and Wildwood flowers
With Bristol belles smiling down on them
I am body I am soul
When you hear me you will know
Why I carry the name that I have
I am Bluegrass
I'm Fincastle, Bean Blossom, & Telluride
Just to name a few
I'm lawn chairs record tables and friends like family
And jams that last till the morning dew
Today there's new grass growing worldwide
Just as blue as the hills of home
Proclaimed from yonder mountains and down in steep canyons
With the spirit of high lonesome deep in their bones
When the last banjo has rung
And the last song is sung
Till the end of the world rolls round
I'll ring through the hills and hollers
Until the roll is called up yonder
I Am Bluegrass
That crossed the great divide
And borne the music of the mountains
Through the Appalachians far and wide
I'm the words about the hills of Roane County
Melodies flowing like a mountain stream
I'm the song about a Blue Moon of Kentucky
The fiddles and banjos in a young man's dreams
I'm an old home place on a hillside
And how mountain girls can love
I'm dark as the night and blue as the day
And the mourning voice of a white dove
I am young, I am old
I'm the stories that are told
With ancient tones still ringing from the past
I am Bluegrass
From the airwaves of Nashville and Southwest Ohio
Bringing songs to light a weary way
I am found in the voices of the prophets
Of a music ever-changing yet still the same
I'm the model church in the country
Unbroken circles of praises heard
The Sunday songs of faith and redemption
Crying holy unto the Lord
I'm a Georgia mule and country boy fading fast away
On the sunny side of the mountain
I'm a Wise-man with love letters in the sand
And footprints in the snow not forgotten
I am tried, I am true
I am the music that lives in you
My father was Big Mon I was made to last
I am Bluegrass
I'm the lonesome lines in a lyric
Leading to roads mighty dark to travel
A tapestry of the music you made me
That the walls of time can't unravel
I'm a Lonesome River Lost & Found
Rarely Herd and Seldom Scene
I am Newgrass, New South, Old and In The Way
Carolina blue in my dreams
I'm the angel of Union Station
The Opry queen with a mandolin
Daughters of Bluegrass and Wildwood flowers
With Bristol belles smiling down on them
I am body I am soul
When you hear me you will know
Why I carry the name that I have
I am Bluegrass
I'm Fincastle, Bean Blossom, & Telluride
Just to name a few
I'm lawn chairs record tables and friends like family
And jams that last till the morning dew
Today there's new grass growing worldwide
Just as blue as the hills of home
Proclaimed from yonder mountains and down in steep canyons
With the spirit of high lonesome deep in their bones
When the last banjo has rung
And the last song is sung
Till the end of the world rolls round
I'll ring through the hills and hollers
Until the roll is called up yonder
I Am Bluegrass
