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I'll build me a fire and I'll cook that old hare
Roll him in the flames and make him brown
Have a feast here tonight while the moon is shining bright
And find me a place to lie down
To lie down (to lie down) to lie down (to lie down)
Find me a place to lie down
Have a feast here tonight while the moon is shining bright
And find me a place to lie down
I'm going down that track with my coat and my bag
Soles on my shoes are nearly gone
A little ways ahead there's a farmer's shed
That's where I'll rest my weary bones
Weary bones (weary bones) weary bones (you lazy bones)
That's where I'll rest my weary bones
A little way's ahead there's a farmer's shed
That's where I'll rest my weary bones
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You're going to miss me by my hair
You're going to miss me everywhere
You know, you're going to miss me when I'm gone
You're going to miss me by my knees
You're going to miss me if you please
You know, you're going to miss me when I'm gone
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down the road here from me
You put your money in
and before you begin
They call it that ole mountain dew
And them that refuse it are few
I'll hush up my mug if you'll fill up my jug
With that good ole mountain dew
My uncle Mort he's sawed off and he's short
He measures bout four foot two
But he thinks he's a giant when you give him a pint
Of that good old mountain dew
My brother Bill's got a house on the hill
where he buys it by the case or two
And the buzzards in the sky get so sick they can't fly
from smelling that good ole mountain dew
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Wake up Charlie let’s go home…
Dance all night with a bottle in my hand…
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Lil Liza Jane
Crow Red Rooster
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I'm going across that green icy mountain
I'm going to see my lover
lover, lover
I'm going to see my lover
lest I take sick and die
She told me that'd she always love me
love me, love me
She told me that'd she always love me
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She threw her arms around me
around me, around me
She threw her arms around me
like a vine around a gum
Key: G
you may be surprised
You fascists are bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
You're bound to lose, you fascists
Race hatred cannot stop us,
this one thing I know
Poll tax and Jim Crow and greed
have got to go
People of every color marching
side by side
Marching across these fields
where a million fascists died
I'm going into this battle,
take my union gun
Gonna end this world of slavery
before this war is won
Key: G
Now the girls up Cripple Creek, about half-grown,
jump on a boy like a dog on a bone.
Roll my britches up to my knees,
wade ol Cripple Creek whenever I please.
Now, Cripple Creek's wide and Cripple Creek's deep,
wade old Cripple Creek before I sleep.
Hills are steep and the roads are muddy,
and I'm so dizzy that I can't stand steady
Key: G
Well where have you been my pretty lulu girl?
Where have you been so long?
Well I've been in the pen with the rough and rowdy men
And honey I'm goin' back again
Well I'll pawn you my watch and I'll pawn you my chain
I'll pawn you my gold wedding ring
To pay my little lulu girl's fine
I'll pawn you my wagon and my team
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I've got a secret I ain't gonna tell...
Keep my whiskey in a coconut shell
Down went the trigger, bang went the gun...
Should have seen him run
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To get me a load of pine
When I'm in the fields hard at work
I sit down to play
Thinking of my own true love
She's many miles away
Once I had a little girl
Got her from the south
Only thing that's wrong with her
She had too big a mouth
Took my girl to the blacksmith's shop
To have her mouth made small
Turned around a time or two
She swallowed that shop and all
When I'm in the fields hard at work
I sit down to play
Thinking of my own true love
She's many miles away
Many miles from my home
Roosters crow for day
Me upstairs with another man's wife
Better be getting away
Way up on the mountain
Give my horn a blow
Thought I heard my true love say
It's coming from my beau
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Every night when I come home
Peas in the pot and the old jawbone
Here today and tomorrow he's gone
Why don't you get away lazy John?
My gal lives at the end of the road
Her teeth are crooked and her legs are bowed
But we sure have a lot of fun
Why don't you get away lazy John?
Goin to a dance Saturday night
Ain't coming home til the broad daylight
Then I'll take my girl back home
Why don't you get away lazy John?
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yonder comes my beau, oh lord
Train on the island, headed way out west
me and my love done broke up
perhaps its for the best
me and my love done broke up
perhaps its for the best
Train on the island, can't your hear em roar
another day on the island
wasted on the shore
another day on the island
wasted on the shore
Train on the island, headed way up north
go and tell my true love
you don't know what she's worth
go and tell my true love
you don't know what she's worth
Key: G
Take a whiff on me, take a whiff on me
All you rounders take a whiff on me
Hey, hey, honey take a whiff on me
I've got a woman, she's ten feet tall
Her head in the kitchen, feet in the hall
Hey, hey, honey take a whiff on me
Two old women fishing in a creek
ain't caught a man since late last week
Hey, hey, honey take a whiff on me
Cocaine's for horses not for men
doctor say it'll kill you but he won't say when
Hey, hey, honey take a whiff on me
I'm a-walkin' down the road with my hat in my hand
Lookin' for a woman who needs a banjo man,
Hey, hey, baby take a whiff on me.
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Should been in town when Reuben's train went down
You could hear that whistle blow 100 miles
Oh me, oh my you could hear the whistle blow 100 miles
Last night I lay in jail had no money to go my bail
Lord how it sleeted & it snowed
Oh me, oh my Lord how it sleeted & it snowed
I've been to the East, I've been to the West
I'm going where the chilly winds don't blow
Oh me, oh my I'm going where the chilly winds don't blow
Oh the train that I ride is 100 coaches long
You can hear the whistle blow 100 miles
Oh me, oh my you can hear the whistle blow 100 miles
I got myself a blade, laid Reuben in the shade,
I'm startin' me a graveyard of my own.
Oh, me, oh lordy my, startin' me a graveyard of my own.
Ol Reuben made a train & he put it on a track
He ran it to the Lord knows where
Oh me, oh my ran it to the Lord knows where
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and the livin' is easy
and your momma's good lookin'
One of these mornings,
you're gonna rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
and you'll take to the sky
But till that morning,
there's a nothin' can harm you
With daddy and mommy
by your side
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I'll fly away, oh glory
I'll fly away in the morning
When I die, Hallelujah by and by
I'll fly away
When the shadows of this life have gone
Like a bird from these prison walls has flown
Oh, how glad and happy when we meet
No more cold iron shackles on my feet
Just a few more weary days and then
To a land where joys will never end
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when I saw that hearse come rolling
There's a better home a-waiting,
Lord I told that undertaker
undertaker please drive slow
for this body you are hauling
Lord, I hate to see her go
I will follow close behind her
try to hold up and be brave
but I could not hide my sorrow
when they laid her in her grave
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Everybody I met (everybody I met)
No mother nor dad (no mother or dad)
I found they were all (I found they were all)
"They've all moved away, " said the voice of a stranger
"To a beautiful land by the bright crystal sea"
Some beautiful day I'll meet 'em in heaven
Where no one will be a stranger to me
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My brothers and my sisters are stranded on this road
A hot and dusty road that a million feet have trod
Rich man took my home and drove me from my door
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore
Was a-farmin' on the shares, and always I was poor
My crops I lay into the banker's store
My wife took down and died upon the cabin floor
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore
I mined in your mines and I gathered in your corn
I been working, mister, since the day I was born
Now I worry all the time like I never did before
'Cause I ain't got no home in this world anymore
Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see
This world is such a great and a funny place to be
Oh, the gamblin' man is rich an' the workin' man is poor
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore
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And she never, hollers cuckoo,
Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds,
I knowed you from old
You rob my, poor pockets,
of my silver, and my gold
Going to build me a log cabin
on a mountain so high,
So I can see Kevin
as he goes on by
I played cards in England
I played cards in Spain
I'll bet you $100
I'll beat you next game
Key: D
Lulu, my Lulu, come and open the door
Lulu, my Lulu, come and open the door
Before I have to walk on in with my old 44
I've been all around this world
Where'd you get that wedding dress and the shoes you wear so fine
Where'd you get that wedding dress and the shoes you wear so fine
I got em from a driver who's moved on down the line
I've been all around this world
Working on that new railroad, mud up to my knees
Working on that new railroad, mud up to my knees
Working for Big John Henry, you know he's so hard to please
I've been all around this world
Mama and Papa, little sister makes 3
Mama and Papa, little sister makes 3
Hanging from the gallows, you'll see the last of me
Lord, Lord, I've been all around this world
Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone
Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone
I don't mind the dying, it's being alive so long
I've been all around this world
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She had log-books and bells and the things like that,
And she knew the old captains and where they were at.
She rode the Alabama and the Gordon C. Green,
As the Cape Girardeau, she was later renamed, Uh-huh.
Well, now, fast people in St. Louis society
A-takin' a trip on the Mississippi
Sleepin' in their bunks after an after-dinner drink
They didn't think the boat would sink. Oh, no!
Well, I know Captain Buck was a very sad man
When that old wooden hull went into the sand
And Miss Ferris was sad for sure
But immediately, her mind went to work. Oh, yeah!
Well, she did some politicking that was tricky and hard
And she got the pilot house for the schoolhouse yard
And so, instead of studying, I became a dreamer
Dreaming 'bout boats and the Mississippi River. Uh-huh.
I had to work real hard to get my school work done
Cause you could not fool Miss Ferris none;
And, if I went to sleep or I were not supposed to talk
Oh, she was a dead shot with a little piece of chalk. Uh-huh!{soc}
Oh me, oh my, how the time does fly.
Time and the river keep a-rollin' on by.
Now, I am not a student and she is not a teacher
But, we both still love the Mississippi River. Uh, huh.
Well, I went to see her this Christmas last.
We took a little trip back through the past.
On the easy rocker we looked at pictures
And we dreamed our dreams of the Mississippi River. Uh-huh!
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You made me love you, now your man done come ...
Standin in the kitchen in that morning gown ...
Lookin right at her when that sun went down ...
My home is on the water, I don't like the land at all ...
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Oh goodbye booze forever more
My boozing days will soon be o'er
I had a good time, but we couldn't agree
So you see what booze has done for me
Well she slammed my head
She broke my heart
So goodbye booze its time we part
I had a good time ...
Well she whispered low, how sweet it sounds
Won't don't you take another ride on the merry go round
I had a good time ...