Stanley Brothers - An Evening Long Ago: Live 1956 [compilation, live] (2004) by Stanley Brothers (보컬) on maniadb.com

Well I wish that I was in London
Or some other seaport town.
Set my foot in a steamboat
And sail the ocean round
Sailing round the ocean
Sailing round the sea.
I'd think of Handsome Molly
Wherever she may be
Well I saw her at church last Sunday
She passed me on by
I knew her mind was changing
By the roving of her eye
Now do you remember Molly
When you give me your right hand
Said if you ever married
I'd be your man
Now you've broke your promise
Go marry whom you please
My heart is broken
'till I get some ease
Well I wish that I was in London
Or some other seaport town
Set my foot in a steamboat
And sail the ocean round

I was born in East Virginia
North Carolina I did go
There I courted a fair young maiden
But her age I did not know

Oh her hair was dark and curly
And her cheeks were rosy red
On her breast she wore a lilly
Where I longed to lay my head

Molly dear, go ask your mother
If you my bride might ever be
If she says no, come back and tell me
And I'll run away with thee

No I'll not go ask my mother
Where she lies on her bed of rest
In her hand she holds a dagger
To kill the man that I love best

The ocean's deep and I can't wade it
And I have no wings to fly
I'll just get some blue-eyed boatman


For to row me o'er the tide

I'll go back to East Virginia
North Carolina ain't my home
I'll go back to East Virginia
Leave old North Carolina alone

I don't want your green back dollar
I don't want your watch and chain
All I want is you my darling
Say you'll take me back again

For you know I'd like to see you
At my door you're welcome in
At my gate I'll always greet you
For you're the girl I tried to win

Come all you tenderhearted
Your attention I will call
I'll tell you how it started
Come listen one and all

Last Wednesday, there was a light
Seen shining on the hills
A mother and her daughter might
While everything was still

She went into a neighbor's
Some hundred yards away
She sat down and talked with them
But she did not mean to see

Don't stay to long dear mother there
For we'll be lonesome here
I'll give some ... she said
Then I'll return again

But when she started home again
Her house was in flames
She cried "Oh Lord, my babies are gone
and I'm the one to blame"

She cried "Alas, how sad they sleep
Wrapped up in the red hot flame"
She bursted all asunder then
And the flames rolled over her head

Their little bones lay on the ground
They both lay face to face
Each other did entwine
Each other did embrace

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Written By RALPH STANLEY
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Coming down from Tennessee riding on the line
Thinking about the girl of mine couldn't keep from crying

Honey babe I'm bound to ride
Don't you want to go

Riding on a streetcar looking o'er the town
Eating saltine crackers ten cents a pound

Working on a railroad saving all I can
Looking for that woman ain't got no man

If I die a railroad man bury me under the ties


So I can see old number nine as she goes rolling by

See that train a coming round the bend
Goodbye my little darling I'm on my way again

Not too many miles from here
In a town that I love dear
There's a lady that's got me on a string
She's the worst you ever saw
She nearly broke my jaw
She made me carry my left arm in a sling.

She's my darlin, my daisy
She's knock-kneed, she's lazy
Humpbacked, box-ankled and she's lame
Oh, her nose is like a cork,
She's the terror of New York
My long, skinny, lanky Sarah Jane.

Oh Jane, my good old Jane,
Won't you come back to yer bonehead once again
Oh, they say she's mighty nice
but her armpits smell like spice
She's my long, skinny, lanky Sarah Jane.

Oh she promised to meet me in stockyard 17
Down at the stockyards, just three miles out of town
Our pigsfeet, and pigs ear, and tough old Texas steer
And sell all the steaks for 14 cents a pound

She's my darlin, my daisy, she's my peaches ----
Humpbacked, bowlegged and she's lame
For they say her teeth are false, for they rattle when she walks
She's my long, skinny, lanky Sarah Jane.

Oh Jane, my good old Jane,
Won't you come back to yer bonehead once again
Oh, they say her breath is sweet
but I'd rather smell her feet
She's my long, skinny, lanky Sarah Jane.

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Written By RALPH STANLEY
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Little birdie, little birdie
Come sing to me a song
A short time to stay here
And a long time to be gone

I'd rather be in some dark holler
Where the sun don't never shine
Than to see you (?)
And to know you'll never be mine

Little birdie, little birdie
What makes you fly so high
It's because my own true lover
Is waiting in the sky

Little birdie, little birdie
Come sing to me a song
A short time to stay here (note 1)
And a long time to be gone

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Written By WADE MAINER
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Look a-yonder comin'
Comin' down that railroad track
Hey, look a-yonder comin'
Comin' down that railroad track
It's the Orange Blossom Special
Bringin' my baby back

Hey talk about a-ramblin'
She's the fastest train on the line
Talk about a-travellin'
She's the fastest train on the line
It's that Orange Blossom Special
Rollin' down the seaboard line

Come pretty young girls give me your attention
To these few lines I've tried to write
About a man who I won't mention
Who courted of his charming bride

And when her parents came to know him
They tried so hard both day and night
To separate here and her own true lover
Her and her own true hearts delight

She turned her back upon the city
She viewed the fields and meadows round
She came upon a broad river
And in the shade of a tree sat down

Her true love being not far behind


He heard her make a mournful sound
And looking on her lifeless body
As she lay cold upon the ground

He then took out his silver weapon
He pierced it through his tender heart
Sayin let this be a dreadful warning
For all true lovers that have to part