Jericho Road - Steve Earle

I was walking, walking down the Jericho Road

And every mile that I travelled showed

And I’m walking down the Jericho Road

I just kept on walking, walking down the Jericho Road

And the sunset red over fields of gold

And I’m walking down the Jericho Road

Well Joshua fit the battle, that’s how the story goes

And the walls come tumbling down, I know

But I’m still walking, walking down the Jericho Road

I met my mother walking down the Jericho Road

Tears in her eyes and her head hung low

And she was walking down the Jericho Road

I met my father walking down the Jericho Road

His back bent over from a heavy load

And he was walking down the Jericho Road

I said, «Papa, don’t you know me?

Won’t you lay your burden down?»

He just shook his head and told me, «Son, you better turn around»

And he kept on walking, walking down the Jericho Road

I met my brother walking down the Jericho Road

And his hands were bloody, but his face was clean

And he was walking down the Jericho Road

I met my sister walking down the Jericho Road

With a babe in her arms that I’d never seen

And she was walking down the Jericho Road

She said, «It's just a little orphan child I found along the way

I’ll raise him as my own and he’ll forgive us all someday»

And she kept on walking, walking down the Jericho Road

I met my mother

I met my father

I met my brother

I met my sister