Born up on the Blue Ridge At the Carolina line Baptised on the banks of the New River Brought up on the bluegrass And the clear moonshine Yeah, tough as iron but a heart as soft as leather Leevi Like a fire on the mountain Runnin' wild in those days Playin' Knights of the Gold Horseshoe and Indian raids Huntin' jackvine in the summertime And in the fall it was ginseng Yeah, a country boy don't belong in the desert anyway Leevi Lord, Lord, Lord they shot him down Ten thousand miles from a Southern town Oooooooh, Leevi From Galax to Bagdhad On a camouflaged airplane Where it was a hundred-nineteen degrees for twenty days straight Shoved off in the sandbox In a rollin' Hum-Vee Cryin' Daddy, Daddy this don't look like Virginia to me Leevi Lord, Lord, Lord they shot him down Ten thousand miles from a Southern town Oooooooh, Leevi In the market square all the bells Were ringin' loud to fill the air Leevi gazed his eyes out through the rocket glare Through the desert and the ocean To the furthest fields of home And when the bullets pierced his body, he was already gone Leevi Lord, Lord, Lord they shot him down Ten thousand miles from a Southern town Oooooooh, Leevi Oooooooh, Leevi Lord, Lord, Lord they shot him down Ten thousand miles from a Southern town Oooooooh, Leevi Oooooooh, Lord, Lord, Leevi Oooooooh, Lord, Leevi
Born up on the Blue Ridge At the Carolina line Baptised on the banks of the New River Brought up on the bluegrass And the clear moonshine Yeah, tough as iron but a heart as soft as leather Leevi Like a fire on the mountain Runnin' wild in those days Playin' Knights of the Gold Horseshoe and Indian raids Huntin' jackvine in the summertime And in the fall it was ginseng Yeah, a country boy don't belong in the desert anyway Leevi Lord, Lord, Lord they shot him down Ten thousand miles from a Southern town Oooooooh, Leevi From Galax to Bagdhad On a camouflaged airplane Where it was a hundred-nineteen degrees for twenty days straight Shoved off in the sandbox In a rollin' Hum-Vee Cryin' Daddy, Daddy this don't look like Virginia to me Leevi Lord, Lord, Lord they shot him down Ten thousand miles from a Southern town Oooooooh, Leevi In the market square all the bells Were ringin' loud to fill the air Leevi gazed his eyes out through the rocket glare Through the desert and the ocean To the furthest fields of home And when the bullets pierced his body, he was already gone Leevi Lord, Lord, Lord they shot him down Ten thousand miles from a Southern town Oooooooh, Leevi Oooooooh, Leevi Lord, Lord, Lord they shot him down Ten thousand miles from a Southern town Oooooooh, Leevi Oooooooh, Lord, Lord, Leevi Oooooooh, Lord, Leevi
