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: A
Wake up Charlie let’s go home…
Dance all night with a bottle in my hand…
Key: A
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: 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: A
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: A
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
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Key: B
When I was a little boy
I wanted a Barlow knife
And now I want little Shady Grove
To say she'll be my wife
Peaches in the summertime
Apples in the fall
If I can't get the girl I love
I don't want none at all
Wish I had a banjo string
Made of golden twine
I'd play that song on my banjo string
And make that girly mine
Some come here to fiddle and dance
Sme come here to tarry
Some come here to fiddle and dance
I come here to marry
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: C
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Key: C
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 ...
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: C
Boys pass around that long-necked bottle
Let's all get on a spree
Today was the last of that Wild Bill Jones
tomorrow be the last of me
He said my age is twenty-one
Too old to be controlled
I drew my revolver from my side
And destroyed that poor boy's soul
He reeled and he staggered, and he fell to the ground
And then he gave one dying moan
He wrapped his arms around my little girl's neck
Saying honey won't you take me home
They sent me to prison for twenty long years
This poor boy longs to be free
But Wild Bill Jones and that long-necked bottle
Have been the ruin of me
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Key: D
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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
Oh, I wish I was a lizard in the spring
Yes, I wish I was a lizard in the spring
If I's a lizard in the spring
I'd hear my darlin' sing
And I wish I was a lizard in the spring
Oh, Kempe wants a nine dollar shawl
Yes, Kempe wants a nine dollar shawl
With a nine dollar shawl
She could beat them all in all
Kempe wants a nine dollar shawl
Oh Kempe, let your hair roll down
Kempe, let your hair roll down
Let your hair roll down
and your bangs curl round
Oh Kempe, let your hair roll down
I been in the bend so long
Yes, I been in the bend so long
I been in the bend
with the rough and rowdy men
Baby, where you been so long?
Oh, I don't like a railroad man
No, I don't like a railroad man
Oh the railroad man
He'll kill you if he can
Drink up your blood like wine
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: D
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Key: D
Gonna cook it every hour
Keep my skillet good and greasy
All the time, time, time
Got chickens in my sack, bloodhounds on my back
Keep my skillet good and greasy
All the time, time, time
Keep my skillet good and greasy all the time
Well if you say so, I’ll never work no more
I’ll lay around your Chevy
All the time, time, time
Just lay around your Chevy all the time
I’m going up the mountain, gonna get me jug of whiskey
Gonna give all to Misty
Keep her good and drunk and goozy
All the time, time, time
Keep her good and drunk and goozy all the time
I’m going down town, gonna get me sack of flour
Gonna cook it every hour
Keep my skillet good and greasy
All the time, time, time
Keep my skillet good and greasy all the time
Key: E
The captain said to John Henry,
I'm gonna bring that steam drill round.
I'm gonna bring that steam drill round on this job
and work that steel on down, down, down, (x2)
John Henry said to his captain,
You can bring that old steam drill round.
You can bring that steam drill round on this job
and I'll beat your steam drill down, down, down (x2)
John Henry said to his shaker,
Shaker, you had better pray.
If you miss your six feet of steel
tomorrow be your burying day, day, day (x2)
The shaker said to John Henry,
A man ain't nothing but a man.
Before you let that steam drill beat you down
you'd better die with your hammer in your hand, Lord, Lord (x2)
John Henry said to his shaker,
Shaker, now why don't you sing?
I'm swinging nine pounds from the shoulders on down,
listen to my cold steel ring, ring ring (x2)
John Henry and the steam drill
took to driving steel and throwing sand
and John Henry beat that steam drill three inches down
but he died with hammer in his hand, Lord, Lord (X2)
They took John Henry to the graveyard
laid him down in the sand.
And every locomotive that comes a'rustling by
hollers, yonder lies a steel driving man, man, man (X2)
Key: C
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 ...
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
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
It was on a Friday night the moon was shining bright
They robbed the Glendale train
And people all did say, from many miles away
It was those outlaws Frank and Jesse James
It was Robert Ford that dirty little coward
I wonder how he does feel
For he ate of Jesse's bread and slept in Jesse's bed
and he laid Jesse James in his grave
He was standing on a chair just dustin' a picture there
Thought that he heard a noise
He turned his head around and the bullet smashed him down
and they laid poor Jesse on the floor
People held their breath
when they heard about his death
wondered how he ever came to fall
It was Robert Ford, that little coward,
shot Jesse while he hung a picture on the wall
Key: G
I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
pickin me a bouquet of dogwood flowers and I'm
hoping for Raliegh, gonna see my baby tonight
Rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama any way you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south bound train
Hey mama rock me
Runnin' from the cold up in New England
I was born to be a fiddler in an old time string band
My baby plays the guitar, I pick the banjo now
Ah, north country winters keep-a gettin' me cold
Lost my money playin' poker so I had to up and leave
but i ain't turning back to live that old life no more
Walkin' to the south out of Roanoake
I caught a trucker out of Philly had a nice long toke
But he was headed west 'cross the Cumberland Gap
into Johnson City, Tennessee
I gotta get a move on, pray for the sun
I hear my baby callin my name and i know that she's the only one
and if I die in Raleigh, well at least I will die free
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: 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: G
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Key: G
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: G
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Key: G
Rove Riley Rove
Rove Riley Rove
Rove Riley poor boy
Ain’t got nowhere to go
Mama give me meat
Daddy give me bread
Pretty girl give me one sweet kiss
Like to done killed me dead
Possum is a funny thing
He rambles in the dark
Only time you know he's there
Is when you hear old Ranger bark
Daddy had a great big house
A hundred stories high
Every story in that house
Was filled with chicken pie
Went up on a mountain
Done stripped me a load of cane
Make me a barrel of molasses
Sweet Miss Liza Jane
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
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Key: G
What you gonna do when the lake goes dry, Honey,
What you gonna do when the lake goes dry, Babe,
What you gonna do when the lake goes dry,
Gonna sit on the bank and watch the crawdads die,
Honey, Baby mine.
Look at that man with a sack on his back, Honey
Look at that man with a sack on his back, Babe
Look at that man with a sack on his back
Packin' all the crawdads he can sack
Honey, Baby mine
Man fell down, broke his sack, Honey
Man fell down, broke his sack, Babe
Man fell down, broke his sack, Honey
Look at all the crawdads scramblin' back
Honey, Baby mine
Standin' on the corner with a dollar in my hand, Honey,
Standin' on the corner with a dollar in my hand, Babe,
Standin' on the corner with a dollar in my hand,
Standin' there waitin' for the crawdad man,
Honey, Baby mine.
Key: G
my love she did not know
I drew a sabre through her,
it was a bloody knife
I threw her in the river,
which was a dreadful sight
My father often told me,
that money would set me free
If I would murder that dear little girl,
whose name was Rose Connolly
My father sits at his cabin door,
wiping his tear-dimmed eyes
For his only son soon shall walk,
to yonder scaffold high
My race is run, beneath the sun,
the scaffold now waits for me
For I did murder that dear little girl,
whose name was Rose Connelly
Key: G
Who's that writin'? John the Revelator
Who's that writin'? John the Revelator
Who's that writin'? John the Revelator
Who's that writin'? John the Revelator
Who's that writin'? John the Revelator
Wrote the book of the seven seals
Moses to Moses watching the flock,
saw the burning bush and he had to stop
God said Moses, take off your shoes
out of the flock, it's you that I choose
Ezekiel walking in the valley of bones
he was dry, thirsty and alone
God said bones, get up and move
Ezekiel he didn't know what he should do
Key: G
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Key: G
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
Key: G
As I was walking that ribbon of highway,
I looked above me, there in the skyway,
I saw below me, the Golden Valley;
This land was made for you and me.
I roamed and rambled,
and followed my footsteps
Through the sparkling sands of
her diamond deserts,
And all around me this voice kept saying,
"This land was made for you and me."
Oh my loving father...
As the Sun was shining, and I was strolling
Through the wheat fields waving
and the dust clouds rolling,
I could feel inside me
and see all around me,
This land was made for you and me.
Key: G
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Key: A
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Key: D
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