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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
Key: A
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
Key: A
Oh, bear my loving heart to him
Who bled and died for me,
Whose blood now cleanses from all sins,
And give me victory
I've almost reached my heavenly home,
My spirit loudly sings,
The holy ones, behold they come,
I hear the noise of wings
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Key: D
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Key: D
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!
Key: D
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Key: D
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Key: D
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Key: D
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Key: C
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Key: G
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B part
Key: G
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: G
They say John, he was a Baptist
He ate locusts and honey too
But he had to walk that lonesome valley
And you will have to walk it too
You gotta sleep in that lonesome graveyard
You gotta sleep there by yourself
Can't nobody else sleep there for you
You gotta sleep there by yourself
You know your mama truly loves you
And your woman she does too
Though they may beg you to go with them
You know they can not go for you
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
Key: G
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
Key: A
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Key: G
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
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
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
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Key: G
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Key: G
Black smoke a-rising and it surely is a train
Surely is a train, Lord, it surely is a train
Black smoke a-rising and it surely is a train
I'm on my long journey home
Lost all my money but two dollar bill
Two dollar bill, Lord, two dollar bill
Lost all my money but two dollar bill
I'm on my long journey home
Oh narrow's the way thank God I can say
Going toward the sunset of time
Traveling the highway home
Rid this world of sin far behind
Traveling the highway home
Well ol' Satan said I’d never be
Traveling the highway home
When I resisted he had to flee
Traveling the highway home
Sometimes the road seems weary and long
Traveling the highway home
But in my heart there's always a song
Traveling the highway home
Key: G
Could been on a rainy night
Billy DeLyon said, Stagger Lee,
please don't take my life,
I got two little babes,
and a darlin' lovin' wife"
Oh that bad man, that cruel Stagger Lee
"What do I care about two little babes
and a darlin' lovin' wife?
You done stole my Stetson hat,
now I'm gonna take your life"
Oh that bad man, that cruel Stagger Lee
Stagger Lee shot Billy
shot the boy so bad,
the bullet went through Billy
and broke the bartender's looking glass
Oh that bad man, that cruel Stagger Lee
Police officer,
tell me how can this be?
You arrest everybody
except cruel Stack O' Lee
Oh that bad man, that cruel Stagger Lee
Gentlemens of the jury
now what do you think of that?
Stagger Lee killed Billy de Lyon
about a five-dollar Stetson hat
Oh that bad man, that cruel Stagger Lee
Now he's standing on the gallows,
with his head way up high.
At twelve o'clock they killed him
we're all glad to see him die
Oh that bad man, that cruel Stagger Lee
Key: G
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
Key: A
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
Key: G
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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.
Key: G
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
Key: G
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Key: D
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Key: G
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