Water In the Well - American Aquarium

Dear Heavenly Father

What have I done

Used to have it all

Now I’m left with none

The Great State of Georgia

Took the farm away

Because of the bills

That I could not pay

My family’s name has been here

Since 1833

A hundred years of sweat and blood

Handed down to me

Said every day I work these fields

And every night I pray

The rain, the rain don’t ever come

And I doubt it’s on the way

So what will I do when all else fails?

What will I do when no water’s in the well

And what will I do when there’s nothing left to sell

Oh, what will I do?

Only time will tell

I hear there’s work in Richmond

And some in New Orleans

But outside that Clarke County line

Is a world I’ve never seen

The paper say that the times are tough

And money’s running low

But the bottom doesn’t look so bad

When the bottom’s all you know

So what will I do when all else fails?

What will I do when no water’s in the well

And what will I do when there’s nothing left to sell

Oh, what will I do?

Only time will tell

Dear Heavenly Father

I’ve come before you now

A bottle’s in my left hand

A pistol’s to my brow

The preacher says salvation

Will cleanse all my bad deeds

But I could never forgive myself

For failing my family

So what will I do when all else fails?

What will I do when no water’s in the well

And what will I do when there’s nothing left to sell

Oh, what will I do?

Only time will tell