Name: Rocky Ground
Duration: P00H03M17S
Description: Music & Lyrics: John Harper

Rocky Ground

from Not the Love You Wanted by Mill Town Rounders

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Music & Lyrics: John Harper

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Sometimes I feel like the rocky ground
A pebble strewn valley and no rain coming down
Some fall on peat and some fall on loam
When I fall I just fall alone

You plant your seeds and you hope it grow
Pick the weeds and you tend your row
Clouds gather to the lowering round
Come the rains to soak the ground

And it feels like Rocky Ground
Not a soul, no one around
Yeah, it feels like Rocky Ground
Not a soul to make a sound

Prodigal Son ain’t got nothing on me
He came home, I just turned to flee
Far away to a foreign land
Try to escape my father’s hand

Sometimes six-pence is more than it’s worth
Come the vultures to plague the earth
Some fell on thorns or were choked in rust
Others to the wayside to be trampled to dust

And it feels like Rocky Ground
Not a soul, no one around
Yeah, it feels like Rocky Ground
Not a soul to make a sound

He who has ears let him heed this song
As for me, now it won’t be long
I can hear angels from up above
Calling me in on the wings of a dove

Saint Jacob, he told me true
Ladder goes up but it comes down too

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from Not the Love You Wanted, released May 13, 2018
Michael Carotenuto, bass and vocals
John Harper, guitar and vocals
Josh Olivier-Mason, ukelele and vocals
Don Shulsinger, banjo
David Walsh, harmonica
Joy Walsh, vocals

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Mill Town Rounders Boston, Massachusetts

The Mill Town Rounders play acoustic rock, bluegrass, and Americana throughout Massachusetts. Drivin' (2023) is the band's second album of originals and features songs about journeys big and small.

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