Acony Bell /
Annabelle /
Barroom Girls /
By the Mark /
Caleb Myer /
The Devil Had A Hold Of Me /
Good Til Now /
Honey Now /
I'm Not Afraid To Die /
Miner's Refrain /
My Morphine /
One More Dollar /
One Morning /
Only One and Only /
Orphan Girl /
Paper Wings /
Pass You By /
Rock Of Ages /
Tear My Stillhouse Down /
Whisky Girl /
Winter's Come and Gone
Revival Orphan Girl
I am an orphan
I have no mother
I have had friendships
I know no mother
But when he calls me
I'll meet my mother
Blessed savior
Be my mother
We lease twenty acres and one ginny mule
We cannot have all things to please us
I had a daughter; called her annabelle
When i'm dead and buried I've got an old v-8 Don't turn no heads Well i used to talk tough I got a brand new plan Don't call for help
Oh the night came undone like a party dress Well she tosses and turns because the sun is unkind Oh the barroom girls go by your side Now she rolls to her feet when she can't sleep no more
A long time ago i left my home So i sent my wages to my home One more dime to show for my day No work said the boss at the bunk house door A long time ago i left my home One more dollar When i cross over By the mark where the nails have been A man of riches On calvary mountain I will know my savior when i come to him
Paper wings, all torn and bent Angels were singing Oh how could i expect to fly with only paper wings
Put no stone at my head
Oh tear my stillhouse down
When i was a child
Oh tell all your children
The fairest bloom the mountain knows
Just a simple flower so small and plain Well it makes its home mid the rocks and the rills And so i'll sing that yellow bird's song There's a hundred bluebirds
But there's only one and only But there's only one and only There's a mile of blacktop But there's only one and only
Hell Among the Yearlings
Nowhere man
Oh little red bird
So long now I've been out
Oh little blue bird
Oh little black bird
Caleb Meyer he lived alone
Caleb Meyer
"Where's your husband
He threw me in the needle bed
Balled out wasted and
Now I was just a girl of two
I've looked around
My Morphine will be
My Morphine will be
My Morphine will be
One morning one morning
In the black dust towns
I'm down in a hole
Well you search the rain
There's something good
I'm down in a deep dark hole
I can't be called
Honey now now now
You take your time
Now now now
Nobody knows
I'm not afraid to die
Round round
Oh my mother is gone
Round round
Moses heard a voice
Round round
Gillian Covers Tennessee Stud
Along about eighteen twenty five
I had a little trouble with my sweetheart's pa (chorus)
We drifted on down into no man's land
Me and a gambler, we couldn't agree
Well I got just as lonesome as a man can be
We loped right back across Arkansas
Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
There's a pretty little baby (girl) on the cabin floor
yrics
On god's highway
But i'll share my troubles
If you go my way
No father, no sister
No brother
I am an orphan girl
Pure and golden
But the ties of kinship
I have not known them
No father, no sister
No brother
I am an orphan girl
I will be able
To meet my family
At god's table
My father, my sister
My brother
No more an orphan girl
Make me willing
And walk beside me
Until i'm with them
My father, my sister
My brother
I am an orphan girl
From the alabama trust
For half of the cotton and a third of the corn
We get a handful of dust
No matter how we try
Until we've all gone to Jesus
We can only wonder why
She's the apple of my eye
Tried to give her something like i never had
Didn't want to ever hear her cry
I'll take a hard life of tears
From every day i've ever known
Anna's in the churchyard; she got no life at all
She only got these words on a stone
From the year i was born
Don't look like much
Just a flat black ford
But the engine's clean
I could paint her someday
But most of the time
I think i like her this way
Don't catch no eye
I'm just a wind on the road
Gonna pass you by
And i used to get loud
Want to paint my name
All over this town
But folks lined up
Just to dog my day
Now if i stay quiet
They stay out of my way
Gonna help myself
'Cause it's the fat man's turn
Gonna share the wealth
Put the money in the bag
And keep your hands in sight
Turn around, count to ten
I'll go back into the night
Don't scream, don't cry
Just a wind on the road
Gonna pass you by
And fell at her feet in a beautiful mess
The smoke and the whisky came home in her curls
And they crept through the dreams of the barroom girls
And the heat of the day is coming in through the blinds
But leave all the blue skies for the rest of the world
Because the neon will shine for the barroom girls
Like the ponies who pass on a carousel ride
And all of the colors go 'round in in a swirl
When you dance in the arms of the barroom girls
And looks at her clothes lying out on the floor
Last night's spangles and yesterday's pearls
Are the bright morning stars of the barroom girls
Last night's spangles and yesterday's pearls
Are the bright morning stars of the barroom girls
For a job in the fruit trees
But i missed those hills with the windy pines
For their song seemed to suit me
And said we'd soon be together
For the next good crop would pay my way
And i would come home forever
One more dollar and i'm on my way
When i reach those hills, boys
I'll never roam
One more dollar and i'm going home
There's a freeze on the branches
So when the dice came out at the bar downtown
I rolled and i took my chances
Just a boy passing twenty
Could you spare a coin and a christian prayer
For my luck has turned aainst me
Boys i'm going home
I will shout and sing
I will know my savior
By the mark where the nails have been
By the sign upon his precious skin
I will know my savior when i come to him
By the mark where the nails have been
May claim a crown of jewels
But the king of heaven
Can be told from the prince of fools
Where they made him suffer so
All my sin was paid for
A long, long time ago
By the mark where the nails have been
But you made me feel like they were heaven sent
Paper wings, not real at all
But they took me high enough to really fall
Your paper kisses
Faded too soon
Just like a paper rose
Beneath a paper moon
Paper wings, paper wings
Oh how could i expect to fly with only paper wings
Didn't you hear
If only i'd listened close
When they whispered in my ear
Paper wings, paper wings
Oh how could i expect to fly with only paper wings
No flowers on my tomb
No gold plated sign
In a marble pillared room
The one thing i want
When they lay me in the ground
When i die, tear my stillhouse down
Let it go to rust
Don't leave no trace of the hiding place
Where i made that evil stuff
For all my time and money
No profit did i see
That old copper kettle was the death of me
Way back in the hills
I laughed at the men
Who tended those stills
But that old mountain shine
It caught me somehow
When i die, tear my stillhouse down
That hell ain't no dream
'Cause satan he lives
In my whiskey machine
And in my time of dying
I know where i'm bound
So when i die, tear my stillhouse down
Is not an iris or a wild rose
But the little flower of which i'll tell
Known as the brave acony bell
With a pearly hue and a little known name
But the yellow birds sing when they see it bloom
For they know that spring is coming soon
Where the snows lie deep on the windy hills
And it tells the world, "Why should i wait
This ice and snow is gonna melt away."
For the troubled times will soon be gone
Up above the clouds
Putting all the color in the sky
And twice as many teardrops
There to wash it down
Every one's another lullaby
Who could go and leave me lonely
There's a world of trouble
Trying to take its turn
I can hear it shaking underground
And half a dozen lessons
I might never learn
Not until them troubles come around
Who could go and leave me lonely
Where the road begins
It takes a time or two to recognize
Growing at the roadside
Scattered by the wind
Are everybody's unsaid sad goodbyes
Who could go and leave me lonely
You're the only one and only
Why'd you go and leave me lonely
and the whiskey girl
Nowhere man
and the whiskey girl
They loaded up for a weekend
in the underworld
I'd take you down
Honey if I could
I'd take you down
Honey if I could
We'd find a place
In the sunshine
We'd be feeling good
Don't you know
That it ain't a crime
Don't you know
That it ain't a crime
If all the squares
And the junkmen
Think you're out of line
Nowhere man
And the whiskey girl
Nowhere man and
The whiskey girl
They loaded up for
A weekend in the underworld
Come to my window sill
Been so lonesome
Shaking that morning chill
Oh little red bird
Open your mouth and say
Been so lonesome
Just about flown away
In the rain and snow
But winter's come and gone
A little bird told me so
Pearly feather breast
Five cold nickels' all I got left
Oh little blue bird
What am I gonna do
Five cold nickels
Ain't gonna see me through
On my wire line
Dark as trouble
In this heart of mine
Poor little black bird
Sings a worried song
Dark as trouble
'Til winter's come and gone
In them hollering pines
And he made
A little whiskey for himself
Said it helped to pass the time
Long one evening in
Back of my house
Caleb come around
And he called my name
Till I went out
With no one else around
Your ghost is gonna
Wear them rattling chains
but when I go to sleep at night
don't you call my name
Nellie Cane where's
Your darling gone?
Did he go on down
The mountainside
And leave you all alone?"
"Yes my husband's gone
To Bowling Green
To do some business there."
Then Caleb threw that
Bottle down and grabbed
Me by my hair
Across my dress he lay
Then he pinned my hands
Above my head
And I commenced to pray
I cried my God I am your child
Send your angels down
Then feeling with
My finger tips
The bottle neck I found
I drew that glass
Across his neck
Fine as any blade
Then I felt his blood
Pour fast and hot
Around me where I laid
I feel I'm going down
Balled out wasted and
I feel I'm going down
Good-bye darling
I've been good til now
I went walking with
A girl pure as milk
I went walking with
A girl pure as milk
Standing on the corner
Sweating through
Her yellow silk
Rocks in my pocket and
The devil on my back
Rocks in my pocket and
The devil on my back
You won't even come
Across the tracks
Balled out wasted and
I feel I'm going down
Balled out wasted and
I feel I'm going down
Good-bye darling
I've been good til now
Now I was just a girl of two
With a golden heart
And a button shoe
The devil had a hold of me
The devil had a hold of me
I turned my head
And I could see
The devil had a hold of me
There was something wrong
With the butcher's boy
There was something wrong
With the butcher's boy
He trembled in
His hand and voice
The devil had a hold of me
The devil had a hold of me
The others knew to let him be
But the devil had a hold of me
The tailpipe spit and
The engine roared
The tailpipe spit and
The engine roared
I's waving out
A Plymouth door
And the devil had
A hold of me
The devil had
A hold of me
The old folks saw
The last they'd see
The devil had a hold of me
I dreamed last night that
My time was done
I dreamed last night that
My time was done
And my soul flew up
To the holy son
But the devil had a hold of me
The devil had a hold of me
I snapped back down when he
Pulled my lead
The devil had a hold of me
There're those who'll laugh
And not believe
There're those who'll laugh
And not believe
Until you feel that touch
Upon your sleeve
The devil had a hold of me
The devil had a hold of me
I turned my head and
I could see
The devil had a hold of me
I turned my head and
I could see
The devil had a hold of me
Been all up and down
I never wasted time
On two or three
There's only one girl for me
There was a time
She used to treat me fine
But lately she's been acting
Awful stone
Makes her man
Weep and moan
The death of me
You should have seen
Me and my Morphine
When we used to
Go dancing in the war
Spin me right off the floor
The death of me
Morphine Morphine
What made you so mean
You never used to
Do me like you do
Where's that sweet gal I knew
The death of me
My Morphine
As work I begun
What did I see
Riding out of the sun
On the road from Lexington
One rider one rider
Beating the breeze
Down on his saddle
Low to his knees
Coming through
My willow trees
Now closer the terrible
Work of the gun
Was stiffened and black
Where his blood all had run
But I knew my wayward son
One morning one morning
The boy of my breast
Came to my door
Unable to rest
Even in the arms of death
Of East Tennessee
All the work's about the same
You may not go to
A job in the ground but you'll
Learn the miner's refrain
I'm down in a hole
Down in a deep dark hole
For the silver cloud
And you wait on days of gold
When you're pitched to the
Bottom and the dirt
Comes down
You'll cry "so cold, so cold"
In a worried song
For the trouble in your soul
Cause a worried man's
Been a long way down
Down in a deep dark hole
Begged or bought
If you want to be my
Johnny on the spot
Honey now now now
You know later won't
Do me no good anyhow
Honey now now now
Front door's shut
Back door too
Blind's pulled down
What you gonna do
And get me sore
Tell me what you want
To keep waiting for
Now now now
Now now now
Now now now
You know later won't
Do me no good anyhow
Honey now now now
What waits ahead
Beyond the earth and sky
I'm not afraid to die
And let work of my own hand
Be broken by and by
I'm not afraid to die
Sometimes it finds me
Fast asleep
And wakes me where I lie
I'm not afraid to die
Forget my sins up on the wind
My hobo soul will ride
I'm not afraid to die
Want to go round
Want to see the rock of ages
When my body gives out
Gonna read the final pages
She told me I should meet her
Some day streets of gold
Gonna guide me on
To greet her
Once my father sat down
And told me of the prophets
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
They're gone but not forgotten
Want to go round
Want to see the rock of ages
Till my body gives out
Gonna read the gospel pages
It called him up the mountain
Forty days had set
When Moses come a-shouting
Want to go round
Want to see the rock of ages
Till my body gives out
Gonna read the gospel pages
by Jimmie Driftwood
I left Tennessee very much alive
I never would have forded the Arkansas flood (And I never would got through the Arkansas mud)
If I hadn't been a-riding on the Tennessee Stud
And one of her brothers was a bad outlaw
I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fudd
Then I rode away on the Tennessee Stud
The Tennessee stud was long and lean (mean)
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee stud.
We crossed the river called the Rio Grande
I raced my horse with a Spaniard's foal
Til I got me a skin full of silver and gold.
We got in a fight over Tennessee
We jerked our guns and he fell with a thud
And I got away on the Tennessee Stud
Dreaming of my girl in Tennessee
The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
'cause he was a-dreaming of his sweetheart too.
I whupped her brother and I whupped her pa
When I found that girl with the golden hair
She was a-riding on the Tennessee Mare
We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide
We came to Big Muddy, then forded the flood
On the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud
A little horse colt playing round the door (lying on the floor)
I love that girl with the golden hair
And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare
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