Eddie Lyrics - Kind Hearted Woman - Michelle Shocked

This boy named Eddie used to set the fields on fire 

He's the only one I know who dared to name his desire 

In a county where the dairy men all had milking machines 

Eddie was the only one to separate the cream 

Eddie and his father let the cows come home 

They were out in the pasture in a late summer storm 

When out of the blue, a lightning bolt came down 

And where his father stood, smoking bones lay on the ground 

Eddie Bonebrake 

His father's remains lie in the Kelsey Cemetery 

But dogs like to dig up the bones that we bury 

You can burn a field but you cannot burn the sky 

That took your father from you in the twinkling of an eye 

But you can burn a field and send clouds of black smoke 

Up into the heavens, praying God will choke 

And now you know the story and you know it was not me 

Or my friend who did it, it was that boy named Eddie 

Eddie Bonebrake