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My pappy said when I was seventeen you're six feet tall and your face is clean
And it don't look right for a boy that old to not make a livin' loadin' coal Loadin' coal loadin' coal I'm a double first cousin to a dad blamed mole Never get rich for to save my soul and forty 'leven years a loadin' coal loadin' coal Ain't never got acquainted with a dollar bill and I don't ever reckon that I ever will A dollar ain't made for a fellar I'm told that scoops up a livin' loadin' coal Loadin' coal loadin' coal... [ ac.guitar ] I cussed everything in the mining camp from a shovel and my pick to my carbide lamp But I know mighty well till I grow old I'll still be a cussin' but loadin' coal Loadin' coal loadin' coal... [ ac,guitar ] I know just as well as coal is black one of these days the mines were strike And I'll sit around starvin' till I'm finally told There's a nickel more a ton for loadin' coal Loadin' coal loadin' coal... |
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| 2. |
| 4:10 |
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I ride an old paint he's on the worryside
And I'm a saddle tramp about to cross the great divide Where there's grass in the coolies and water in the drawl And the forty pound saddle won't make us both raw Slow rider slow rider move on a little more The sky boss is waitin' at the big ranch house door I can't help but missin' the daughters that I had One went to Denver the other went bad My young wife died in a poolroom fight But I try to keep singin' from morning till night Slow rider slow rider... [ guitar ] Whenever I die take my saddle from the wall Strap it on snuffy lead him out of the stall Throw me on his back and turn him toward the west He knows how to take me to the spot I love best Slow rider slow rider... |
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| 3:03 |
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I lived on a farm out in Iowa I pulled the corn and I worked in the hay
Got trapped by a girl but I wiggled free heard the Oregon timber callin' me Will you tell me somethin' Mr Lumberjack is it one for forward and three for back Is it two for stop or four for go boy ask a whistle punk I don't know Well I learned this fact from a logger named Ray you don't cut timber on a windy day Stay out of the woods when the moisture's low Or you ain't gonna live to collect your doe Will you tell me somethin'... Well you work in the woods from morning till night You laugh and sing and you cuss and fight On Saturday night you go to Eugene, and on a Sunday morning your pockets are clean Will you tell me somethin'... |
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| 4:47 |
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As I walked by the lake one day by chance my Dorraine passed my way
Then she and I walked hand in hand on the banks of Ponchartrain I pinned a flower on her heart I swore we'd never be apart She vowed her love forever and as I kissed her did the same Dorraine my Dorraine my dark haired little angel my belle of Ponchartrain We sat down on the dock and with our hearts and fingers locked We laughed and talked and joked about when our names are the same And joking I said honey are you marrying me for money And it took just one quick look to tell it hurt my dear Dorraine She jumped and stood above me and she cried why you don't love me I'm rowing home across the lake you won't see me again I called and called some more but she rowed fast from the shore And the clouds brought by a wind began to rain on Ponchartrain Dorrain I called Dorrain come back my little angel my belle of Ponchartrain The storm should make her learn that she should make a swift return But as the rain fell harder I lost sight of my Dorraine As panic gripped my heart I drew the oars and made my start To look for her on raging waters and the rain on Ponchartrain At darkness I still called but no one heard my cries at all And when the daybreak came then others helped me look for my Dorraine But there was not a thing afloat except the oars from her rowboat For all was lost upon the choppy waves and rain on Ponchartrain Now I come day after day to where my sweetheart rowed away And I gaze across the water of the rainy Ponchartrain Just one thing and nothing more ever floated back to shore Twas this flower I hold it is the one I pinned on my Dorraine Dorraine my Dorraine my dark haired little angel my belle of Ponchartrain |
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| 5. |
| 4:22 |
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Bring a drink of water Leroy bring a drink of water (no)
If I could get to mercy man he's give me some I know I got a gal in Vickburg Bertha is her name Wish I's tied to Bertha instead of this ball and chain I'm goin' to Memphis (that's right Lord) yeah (uh huh) But dues took all my money wouldn't let me see the cards I owen the boss about a hundred years for sleepin' in his backyard I'm goin' to Memphis (yeah Memphis) yeah I'm goin' to Memphis (now) Like a bitter weed I'm a bad seed but when that levee's thru and I am too Let the honky tonk roll on come mornin' I'll be gone I'm goin' to Memphis yeah Memphis I never been to Chicago but it must be a mighty fine place (that's right) I couldn't get past Tennessee with Mississippi all over my face (uh huh) I'm goin' to Memphis (that's right Lord Memphis) Well the freezin' ground at night is my own foldin' bed Polk salad is my bread and meat and it will be till I'm dead Well I brought me a little water in a Mr Prince Albert can But the bossman caught me drinkin' it and I believe he broke my hand (hm hm) They all call me crazy for sassin' Mr Scott My brother was killed for a deed I did but I disremember what (yeah) Well another boy is down the shovel burned him out Let me stand on his body to see what the shoutin's about I'm goin' to Memphis yeah I'm goin' to Memphis hmm Like a bitter weed... |
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| 2:54 |
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My papa was a hobo when they delivered me
We didn't have a doctor cause he couldn't pay the fee But when the goin' got too bad to ease his misery Papa played the dobro this a way and he'd go [ dobro ] When company would come around he kept the dobro hid He knew he couldn't play the way the other players did Why the guitar's resonator was a gallon bucket lid But papa played the dobro this a way and he'd go [ dobro ] Well now that papa's gone away it's hanging by the flue The top of it's rusted and the strings're rusty too It won't ever sound the way that it did when it was new When papa played the dobro this a way and he'd go [ dobro ] |
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| 3:56 |
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Pick a lot o'cotton drag a long sack comin' across the field well I see Boss Jack
He's a ridin' straddle of a single foot roan When you know that horse you'll leave him alone The ole roan's got green in his eyes mean as the devil and twice as wise A fire in his nose and a bow in his back can't nobody ride him but Boss Jack Come on children bend your back work a little faster fill your sack Then you hitch up the wagon take it to the gin finish pickin' before the winter sets in [ ac.guitar ] Now here while back when the crop was laid by Remember who took us on a big fish fry Caught a heap of catfish goggle eye and carp Dashed and sang to the guitar and the harp Well someday old Boss Jack is gonna set us all free Gabriel gonna blow for you and me Angels gonna bring that chariot from above floppin' there wings like a turtle dove Come on children... |
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| 4:10 |
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He was just an old country doctor in a little country town
Fame and fortune had passed him by though we never saw him frown As day by day in his kindly way he'd serve us one and all Many a patient forgot to pay although Doc's fees were small Though he needed his dimes and there were times that he'd receive a fee He'd pass it onto some poor soul that needed it worse than he He had to sell his furniture couldn't pay his office rent So to a dusty room over a livery stable Doc Brown and his satchel went And on the hitchin' post at the kerb below to advertise his wares He nailed a little sign that read Doc Brown has moved upstairs There he kept on helping folks get well,for his heart was jus'pure gold, But anyone with eyes could see that Doc was gettin' old. Then one day he didn't answer when they knocked upon his door Old Doc Brown was layin' down but his soul was no more They found him there in that old black suit on his face was a smile of content But all the money they could find on him was a quarter and a copper cent So they opened up his ledger and what they saw gave their hearts a pull Beside each debtor's name old Doc had write these words Paid In Full Old Doc should had a funeral fine enough for a king It's a ghastly joke our town was broke and no one could give a thing 'Cept Jones an undertaker he did mighty well Donatin' an old iron casket he had never been able to sell And the funeral procession it wasn't much for grace and pomp and the style But those wagon loads of mourners they stretched out for more than a mile We wanted to give him a monument we kinda figured we owed him one Cause he made our town a better place for all the good he'd done We pulled up that old hitchin' post where Doc had nailed a sign We'd painted it white and to all of us it certainly did look fine Now the rains and the snows have washed away our white trimmin's of paint There ain't nothin' left but Doc's own sign and that's gettin' pretty faint But you can still see that old hitchin' post as if in answer to our prayers Mutely tellin' the whole wide world Doc Brown has moved upstairs |
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| 1:54 |
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Well I knew A boy named Willie Brown He was A lover of our town
Wherever he went the girls fell down, and cryed for Willie Brown Crazy about Willie Brown Tall and dark and lean and long Big as A bull and twice as strong, He loved the girls and turned them down, A sheek was Willie Brown Dang sheek Willie Brown Well A new girl moved in on our street, We knew that she and Will would meet, But when we inquired around she had not met Willie Brown, She said who's Willie Brown, The prettiest girl you ever saw head to Toe without A flaw, When we met one night in town she fell for Willie Brown, In love with Willie Brown, But the trouble was that We all knew Willie Brown was falling too Then He announced When June comes around She'll marry Willie Brown She's in love With Willie Brown. But then the girl denied it all,she said Its true that I did fall but he took my love for granted now To heck with Willie Brown, conceided Willie Brown, Willie Brown was shocked to learn that his love had at last been spearned so on A Hill ouside of town we buried Willie Brown, we buried Willie Brown |
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| 1:54 |
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Second Honeymoon
I walked up to the desk and asked the man about a room I asked about the bridal suite, I told him I'm the groom Then I took the elevator to the floor I was assigned I fumbled with the key the way I did that other time Inside I thought of all the things that started in this room But I'm alone on our second honeymoon I hear the happy people laughing in the street below But the loneliness I feel tonight I hope you never know The life that was a happy song has ended much too soon And I'm alone on our second honeymoon I look around the room and see you standing everywhere The fragrance of your bridal flowers seems to fill the air The blushing bride that gave me such a free and eager kiss Two loving arms around me as you offered wedded bliss We'd said that we'd return to live it over in this room But I'm alone on our second honeymoon |
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| 3:47 | 
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| 2:06 |
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