Me and This Road Chris Knight An old county road runs by my house And ends on the river bank In '73 they shut the ferry down Back up the road there's a church and a store With a bench full of lying old men in the middle of a wide spot They call a town I’m just a young man living to make me old Plowing these fields by the river road Where hopes dreams and my granddaddy lived and died They go as far as my eyes can see But they ain't far enough for me When I drive to the river And I look at the other side Me and this road We ain't been nowhere As far as I know this whole world's just a county fair But somewhere there's a bridge that'll take us out of here Free as a river flows me and this road We’ll find a long stretch of blacktop Where there ain't no dead-end signs And leave these fences fields and farms behind There’s a bigger town on a bigger road Fame and fortune I’ve been told And across that river we'll search 'til I find mine Me and this road We ain't been nowhere As far as I know this whole world's just a county fair But somewhere there's a bridge that'll take us out of here Free as a river flows me and this road I shook my father's hand Now I’m off to find the Promised Land And I hope I bring him back a little gold You know his dream was the same as mine But it got lost somewhere in time In a dusty field along that river road Me and this road We ain't been nowhere As far as I know this whole world's just a county fair But somewhere there's a bridge that'll take us out of here Free as a river flows me and this road