Claude Jones

Back in southern Virginia
Lived a legend of a man
Took to running corn whiskey
All across this land
His name was Claude Jones
Made of nothing but skin and bones
But he had a hair-trigger temper
It could change as quick as the weather
Claude Jones, Claude Jones
Don't leave your family alone
When you're born a freeborn man
Apart from Uncle Sam
You take that money any way that you can
Wake up, get up and go
Shake up, put on a show
Before they bury you in the sand
You'll be standing
Singing in the sun
One of the bootleggers
Life's a one and done
So I think about your family
When you're dead and gone
May they be worthy to grace this land you walked upon
Claude Jones, Claude Jones, Claude Jones
So that you may live on
When you're born a freeborn man
Apart from Uncle Sam
You take that money any way that you can
Wake up, get up and go
Shake up, put on a show
Before they bury you in the sand
You'll be standing
Singing in the sun
One of the bootleggers
Life's a one and done
So I think about your family
When you're dead and gone
May they be worthy to grace this land you walked upon
Claude Jones, Claude Jones, Claude Jones
So that you may live on