[D] [G] Elijah came to Texas to find his family a home [D] [G] With his wife and new baby, and what little goods that they owned [D] [G] Had a good yoke of oxen, hand tools for clearin' the land [A] [A7] [D] And he built him a church, cuz he was a God-Fearin' man [D] [G] All of his children and heirs worshipped there through the years [D] [G] On down through my Grandad, and he's buried about 40 yards from here [D] [G] It's where I was baptized, where I took me a wife [A] [A7] [D] And if I have my say so, that's where I'll rest when it's time [D] When I'm dead and I'm gone, Won't you carry me home [G] [D] To that little white church in my daddy's hometown [D] Lord knows I'm some kind of sinner [Em] [A] But I've done come this far and it's too late for changin' [D] When this race has been run, take me back where I came from [Bm] [A] Let me return what I took from the ground [G] [D] When this body won't carry me no further [A7] [D] Take me home, and lay me down [D] [G] That ol' East Texas red dirt won't grow much of nothin' they say [D] [G] 'cept tomatoes and peaches, most drill for oil nowadays [D] [G] This ol' hired hand named Reagan first made me understand [A] [A7] [D] And he told me the red was the blood of my kin in the land [D] When I'm dead and I'm gone, Won't you carry me home [G] [D] To that little white church in my daddy's hometown [D] Lord knows I'm some kind of sinner [Em] [A] But I've done come this far and it's too late for changin' [D] When this race has been run, take me back where I came from [Bm] [A] Let me return what I took from the ground [G] [D] When this body won't carry me no further [A7] [D] Take me home, and lay me down