Blue lights flash in my rearview glass
Somewhere outside Matewan town
Deputy thinks he’s takin’ me in
But he don’t know how we get around
Old Ford rattlin’, tires throw clay
Headed south from Welch that way
Radio cracklin’, callin’ my name
But I ain’t playin’ their courthouse game
Passed the coal tipple by the tracks
Old camp houses leanin’ out back
Granddad dug coal underground
In this County’s shafts way down
Yeah that siren’s howlin’ through the pines
But these ridge roads been mine since nine
Bush bond, bush bond, through the pines I’m gone
Blue lights flash but I ain’t ridin’ along
When the blacktop ends and the gravel’s gone
I’m postin’ me a bush bond
Bush bond, bush bond, through the hills I run
Deputy shoutin’ but he won’t catch one
Truck quits rollin’, boots hit the dawn
Yeah a bush bond beats a bail bond
Cut the wheel through a Logan field
Corn rows bend and the fences squeal
Deputy’s truck can’t follow me
Past Tug Fork bendin’ through them trees
Down a gravel road past a mine gate sign
Where my uncle ran shine back in ’79
Engine knockin’, runnin’ hot
But this old truck’s givin’ all it’s got
Hear that siren fall behind
Now it’s man and mountain time
Bush bond, bush bond, through the pines I’m gone
Blue lights flash but I ain’t ridin’ along
When the blacktop ends and the gravel’s gone
I’m postin’ me a bush bond
Bush bond, bush bond, through the hills I run
Deputy shoutin’ but he won’t catch one
Truck quits rollin’, boots hit the dawn
Yeah a bush bond beats a bail bond
Truck died cold on a logging trail
Moon hangin’ high over Pineville shale
Boots hit dirt and I hit the ridge
Past the laurel thick by the old rail bridge
Where the moonshiners ran in the dead of night
And the lawmen never got the sight
Bush bond, bush bond, through the pines I’m gone
Blue lights flash but I ain’t ridin’ along
When the blacktop ends and the gravel’s gone
I’m postin’ me a bush bond
Bush bond, bush bond, through the hills I run
Deputy shoutin’ but he won’t catch one
Truck quits rollin’, boots hit the dawn
Yeah a bush bond beats a bail bond
Bush bond
Bush bond
Bush bond
“Bush Bond” is track number 6 on the Thumper Barrel album, Bush Bond.
Track: Bush Bond
Album: Bush Bond
ISRC: QZNWX2632104
ASCAP: 935049077