The Shelter Valley Road

There's an old man in the pasture
And he smokes an old man's pipe
He stops to pull his hanky out and give his face a wipe
He gazes back across the years and every row he's hoed
In the fields along the Shelter Valley Road

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Oh, the Shelter Valley Road
And the way it winds along
It's like a long-lost melody from a half-remembered song
In the end it all comes down to
Reapin' what you've sowed
In the fields along the Shelter Valley Road
In the fields along the Shelter Valley Road

There's a woman in the garden
With a weary woman's smile
Stands to stretch her back a bit & face the sun a while
She hears the footsteps on the breeze
Of the pony she once rode
In the fields along the Shelter Valley Road

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There's a woodstove in the kitchen
Where the water boils for tea
A fridge door full of photographs of friends and family
There's another season turning
Just last night it snowed
In the fields along the Shelter Valley Road

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