The Thing I Done - C.W. Stoneking

I roll like thunder,

Go, like dynamite,

All flesh and bone, I come,

Old death 'long by my side,

In from the storm,

This scornful breath about my tongue,

O' the thing I done

I took my chances,

Took what chance I got,

Lord know, my hands is tied,

This all-bindin', ancient, blood,

There flood my mind, images.

Blindin' as the sun,

O' the thing I done

Can’t tell my future,

I can’t tell my past,

It’s only eludin' fate,

That make my journey’s task,

That weigh down upon me,

Out on the run,

O' the thing I done

The band are playin',

Bathed in electrical light

But I’m all at sea, away,

Under the shade o' that dark fright,

Know an' I, never had a chance, I come,

Bound to all, I done.

You hear me singin',

Know my time ain’t long,

Desirous, this song I bring,

On these un-restin' bones

Long ways from home, I stumbled,

Long, since time begun.

O' the thing I done

O' the thing I done

O' the thing I done

O' the thing I done