text: God said dont give me your tin horn prayers
  Dont buy roses off the street down there
  Took it all and took the dirt road home
  Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair
  Night is falling like a bloody axe
  Lies and rumors and the wind at my back
  Hand on the wheel and gravel on the road
  Will the pawn shop sell me back what I sold?
  Im gonna take the sins of my father
  Im gonna take the sins of my mother
  Im gonna take the sins of my brother
  Down to the pond
  Birds cry warning from a hidden branch
  Carving out a future with a gun and an axe
  Im way beyond the gavel and the laws of man
  Still living in the palm of the grace of your hand
  The worlds not easy, the blind man said
  Turns on nothing but money and dread
  Dogs been scratching at the door all night
  Long-neck birds flying out of the moonlight
  Im gonna take the sins of my father
  Im gonna take the sins of my mother
  Im gonna take the sins of my brother
  Down to the pond
  Down to the pond
  Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie
  The star-spangled glitter of his one good eye
  Everybody knows that the game was rigged
  Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig
  Darktown alleys been hiding you
  Long bell tolling is your Waterloo
  Oh baby, what can you do?
  Does the light of god blind you or lead the way home for you?
  Im gonna take the sins of my father
  Im gonna take the sins of my mother
  Im gonna take the sins of my brother
  Down to the pond
  Down to the pond
  Im gonna take the sins of my father
  Im gonna take the sins of my mother
  Im gonna take the sins of my brother
  Down to the pond
  Down to the pond
  God almighty for righteousness sake
  Humiliation of our fallen state
  Written in the book of tubold Cain
  A long black overcoat will show no stain
  Feel the heat and the burn on your back
  The rip and the moan and the stretch of the rack
  All my belongings in a flour sack
  Will the place I come from take me back?
  Im gonna take the sins of my father
  Im gonna take the sins of my mother
  Im gonna take the sins of my brother
  Down to the pond
  Down to the pond
  Theyll hang me in the morning on a scaffold yea big
  To dance upon nothing to the Tyburn jig
  Treats you like a puppet when your under its spell
  Oh the heart is heaven, but the mind is hell
  Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds
  I was born at this time for a reason you see
  When Im dead, Ill be dead a long time
  But the wines so pleasing and so sublime
  Im gonna take the sins of my father
  Im gonna take the sins of my mother
  Im gonna take the sins of my brother
  Down to the pond
  Down to the pond
  Kissed my sweetheart by the chinaball tree
  Everything I done is between God and me
  Only he will judge how my time was spent
  Twenty-nine days of sinning and forty to repent
  The horse is steady, but the horse is blind
  Wicked are the branches on the tree of mankind
  The roots grow upward and the branches grow down
  Its much too late to throw the dice again, Ive found
  Im gonna take the sins of my father
  Im gonna take the sins of my mother
  Im gonna take the sins of my brother
  Down to the pond
  Im gonna wash them
  Im gonna wash them
  Im gonna wash the sins of my father
  Im gonna wash the sins of my mother
  Im gonna wash the sins of my brother
  Till the water runs clear
  Till the water runs clear
  Till the water runs clear