there s crying in the kitchen there s running in the hall daddy s winchester wasn t hanging on the wall and it didn t seem like christmas very much at all mama set me to chopping wood before the snow she said daddy s gone to richmond and that s all you need to know i said i want to know why carla has got that blood on her clothes carla came home middle of the night sunglasses on and tears in her eyes carla came home tonight just for christmas time when carla met tom walker daddy said he ain t no count he d grab his gun and go hunting when she d bring him to the house now something tells me tom walker is out of the picture now they quit searching for my brother in law gave him a week then they called in the dogs well there won t nobody miss him except maybe his ma 2x