Tom T. Hall - Once Upon a Road video free download
In 2007, as Christmas gift to his wife Dixie, Tom T. Hall released the CD Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. on their independent bluegrass label Blue Circle Records. "Once Upon a Road" is a selection from this CD.
Vocals: Tom T. Hall
Words & Music: Tom T. Hall and Dixie Hall
Album: Tom T. Hall Sings Dixie and Tom T. (Blue Circle Records - 2007)
Lyrics:
ONCE UPON A ROAD
WHEN I WAS INNOCENT AND FREE
AND THE BACKROADS OF AMERICA
WERE LIKE TOYLAND TO ME
IT SURELY WAS THE PROMISED LAND
AND WE HAD OURSELVES TO PLEASE
OH HOW THE MILK AND HONEY FLOWED
ONCE UPON A ROAD
ONCE UPON A ROAD
WE COULD LIVE OFF OF THE LAND
WATERMELONS ON THE VINE
CHICKEN COOKIN' IN A PAN
WATER CLEAN AND WATER FREE
YOU COULD SLEEP BENEATH A TREE
LOVE AND FREEDOM WAS OUR CODE
THAT WAS ONCE UPON A ROAD
ONCE UPON A ROAD
REALLY WAS A CRAZY TIME
WE BELIEVED WE COULD MOVE MOUNTAINS
SO WE MOVED THEM IN OUR MINDS
BLOOD AND SWEAT AND BITTER TEARS
TOOK THE DAYS AND TOOK THE YEARS
WE HAVE LITTLE LEFT TO SHOW
FOR BEING ONCE UPON A ROAD
ONCE UPON A ROAD
WE WERE YOUNG AND WE WERE FAIR
CHANGED THE FACE OF ALL AMERICA
BUT NEVER IN THE BARBER CHAIR
WE WERE FIGHTING FOR A DREAM
FOUGHT A MIGHTY BIG MACHINE
THERE AIN'T NOTHING THAT WE KNOW
FOR BEING ONCE UPON A ROAD
WE HAVE LITTLE LEFT TO SHOW
FOR BEING ONCE UPON A ROAD
Comments
9 years ago
Miriam Panaro
For my friends who love the country.....!!!!!9 years ago
Reg Sunduk
thank you so much for posting ....love this song but could you please re-post,as it skips at he beginning at 0:299 years ago
RockyMountainRose
+800green I agree 100% with you. Your dad is listening :)10 years ago
Stan Wagner
I love Tom T. and Miss Dixie....but I am so glad that Mike Andes (with Nothin Fancy) nothinfancybluegrass com signs this on the CD with the same name. Some performers are just be apt for singing others' songs. Sorry Tom, just my opinion.11 years ago
John Sibley
I've almost heard it all; from Tchaikovsky to Thelonius Monk, The Country Gentlemen, Mac Wiseman, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, Peter Frampton, & Tony Rice, & Hank Jr.. Tom T. graced Halifax County , Va. once & it was a true pleasure. He deserves to be in the Country Music Hall of Fame. I love his music. We need to get Jerry Reed ( a talented Georgia boy[ my mother is from Wrens, GA.] check out Yes Ma'am Chet Atkins' version) in there. ONCE UPON A ROAD! A GREAT TUNE! GOD BLESS TOM T.!11 years ago
Billy Nixon
great noise..xxxx11 years ago
Earl Stewart
great tune with a bluegrass flavor11 years ago
pmcscwacks
I love it, an embodiment of a great artist.11 years ago
cohencash1
MY IDOL,TOM T,,# 1 FAN FROM CANADA12 years ago
800green
I wish they would play this album on the radio here in NH I love tom t halls music and some of these songs are so awesome I listen to them over and over finaly some good old country music I should of known that the only way I was going to here some thing that would compare to tom t halls story telling of the past would have to come from the master thank you so much I wish my father could of heard this song before he passed away you still have it Tom please write me some more classics . PORTER12 years ago
Phil Penman
This fantastic album is coming out with new packaging in the UK in July on Drumfire Records.12 years ago
hownos
great stuff12 years ago
Bascomblodge
What a great verse Tom T. wrote here. He captured the innocence and sense of a generation: ONCE UPON A ROAD WHEN I WAS INNOCENT AND FREE AND THE BACKROADS OF AMERICA WERE LIKE TOYLAND TO ME IT SURELY WAS THE PROMISED LAND AND WE HAD OURSELVES TO PLEASE OH HOW THE MILK AND HONEY FLOWED ONCE UPON A ROAD THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU AND MISS DIXIE.12 years ago
Bascomblodge
T. T. Hall: What a great poet. His ability to capture a part of America in a song was similar to how Rockwell could capture it in a painting. I think of Hall, Rockwell, and Mark Twain and being 3 American originals.13 years ago
hownos
i was looking for this thanks for the post.Related Videos
