Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show
Old Crow Medicine Show
Levi is “about a soldier [First Lieutenant Leevi Barnard] who grew up in the wild hillbilly woods of Virginia.” Barnard was a member of the National Guard killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad in 2009.
During the funeral procession, some of Barnard’s friends broke out singing his favorite song, Wag...
Born upon the blue ridge, at the Carolina line
Baptized on the banks of the new river
Brought upon blue grass and clear moon shine
And tough as iron but a heart soft as leather
Levi, lord, lord, lord, they shot him down
Ten thousand miles from a southern town
Oh, Levi
Like a fire on a mountain, running wild with no states
Playing Knights of the Golden Horseshoe
And Indian raids
Now it's parachutes and combat boots
And camouflaged airplanes
And a country boy who don't belong
In the desert anyways
Levi, lord, lord, lord, they shot him down
Ten thousand miles from a southern town
Oooooooh, Levi
Well the sandbox sure gets lonesome
And it's a hundred and nine degrees
Singing carry my back to Virginia
Lord I'm down here on my knees
In a market skrell while the bells were ringing
Loud to fill the air
Levi gazed his eyes out, to the rocket player
Beyond the desert and the ocean
To the farthest fields on home
And when the bullets pierced his body
He was already gone
Levi, lord, lord, lord, they shot him down
Ten thousand miles from a southern town
Oh, Levi, lord, lord, lord, they shot him down
Oh, Levi, oh Levi
Levi was written by Ketch Secor.
Levi was produced by Ted Hutt.
Old Crow Medicine Show released Levi on Tue Jul 17 2012.