by Scot Robinson (Scot Free Sessions)
“A Man Should Own Land”
Scot Robinson
Canada
My father always said
A man should own land
So I bought a grave plot
On a layaway plan
Reckon Iʼll be dead
Longer than Iʼm alive
Iʼll be kissing that dirt
For a long, long time
Found me a spot
pretty as can be
a place to call home
for eternity
Twenty more payments
And its all mine
Borrowed money
On Borrowed time
(Chorus)
I wanna go to heaven
But will they let me in
They got their standards
Well I got my sin
Donʼt wanna go to hell
Thereʼs too much family
Put my soul in the ground
Lay the earth over me
The grass on my grave
is going grow high
My mother's gonna stop
My mother's gonna cry
Her tears gonna come
tumbling on down
Iʼll have the nicest place
In this whole damn town
(Chorus)
I wanna go to heaven
But will they let me in
They got their standards
Well I got my sin
Donʼt wanna go to hell
Thereʼs too much family
Put my soul in the ground
Lay the earth over me
If I had me some money
Iʼd buy me a stone
To have one thing in this life
to mark as my own
Chisel in my name
my birth and dying day
Other than that
What's there left to say
(Chorus)
I wanna go to heaven
But will they let me in
They got their standards
Well I got my sin
Donʼt wanna go to hell
Thereʼs too much family
Put my soul in the ground
Lay the over me