McArthur

Album: released as a single (2026)
Charted: 31
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  • My name's John McArthur and I work this dirt
    'Til they lay me down in it in my one good shirt
    I kept my family fed with a mule and a plow
    I'm a whisper in the wind through the pine trees now

    And my bloodline, it bled on this ground
    Soon we all find that's where we're bound
    And Father Time don't leave anyone out
    When you pass on, what you gonna pass down?

    I'm Junior McArthur and I join my old man
    By way of a bullet in Vietnam
    Left behind my woman and my boy named Jones
    Never got to meet him but he's carrying the nom

    My bloodline that bled on this ground
    Soon we'll all find that's where we're bound
    And Father Time don't leave anyone out
    And when you pass on, what you gonna pass down?

    I'm Jones McArthur and I tried like hell
    To teach my son why a man don't sell
    But he came home from college seeing dollar signs
    Didn't wanna go to work, just wanted me to die

    I'm Hunter McArthur and the deal looks good
    In eighteen months this'll be a neighborhood
    I got a million dollar line I can sign my name on
    But there's a whisper in the pines that's tellin' me don't

    Sayin' my bloodline, it bled on this ground
    Soon we all find that's where we're bound
    And Father Time don't leave anyone out
    And when you pass on, what you gonna pass down?

    And when you pass on, what you gonna pass down?
    Gonna pass down?
    Gonna pass down?
    Gonna pass down? Writer/s: Jameson J. Rodgers, Josh Thompson, Michael Wilson Hardy, Richard Chase Mcgill
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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