Frogmorton

johnny cash

well i hear the train a comin, its rollin round the bend
and i aint seen the sunshine since idk when
i'm stuck in folsom prison and time keeps draggin on
but that train keeps a rollin on down to san antone

when i was just a baby my mama told me son
always be a good boy dont you ever play with guns
but i shot a man in reno just to watch him die
when i hear that whistle blowin i hang my head and cry

well i bet theres rich folks eatin in a fancy dining car
theyre probably drinking coffee and smokin big cigars
well i know i had it comin, i know i cant be free
but those people keep on moving, and thats what tortures me

if they freed me from this prison, if that railroad train was mine
i guess i'd move it on a little further down the line
far from folsom prison - that's where i wanna stay
and i'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away

and i'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away

Folsom Prison Blues (johnny cash) ft. garden graves

i cant do this anymore
i dont wanna go out the door
all i want is to be with my girl
i dont wanna be in this world

i just gotta stay longer love
i cant tell you what i'm thinking of
oneday maybe i dont care at all
i wont feel a thing at all
and i can't live without you

sunflower

goldberry my love in forests so faire
i'd bury my love within your long hair
sing for me sweetly my lovely young lass
come with me dearling lets lay in the grass

i've gone all the way there but i'll never come back again
i've gone all the way there but i don't think i'll come back again

i'll drink myself to death till i'm back there
i'll drown myself in wine till i'm with her
i can't go on this way anymore
i can't be alone and i can't be with her

Goldberry

harry mcclintock

one evening as the sun went down
and the jungle fire was burning
down the track came a hobo hikin
said, "boys, i am not turning
i'm headed for a land that's far away
beside the crystal fountains
so come with me, we'll go and see
the big rock candy mountains
in the big rock candy mountains
there's a land that's fair and bright
where the handouts grow on bushes
and you sleep out every night
where the boxcars all are empty
and the sun shines every day
on the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees
the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
In the big rock candy mountains
in the big rock candy mountains
All the cops have wooden legs
the bulldogs all have rubber teeth
and the hens lay soft boiled eggs
the farmers trees are full of fruit
and the barns are full of hay
oh I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow
where the rain don't fall, the wind don't blow
in the big rock candy mountains
in the big rock candy mountains
you never change your socks
and little streams of alcohol
come trickling down the rocks
the brakemen have to tip their hats
and the railroad bulls are blind
there's a lake of stew and of whiskey, too
you can paddle all around 'em in a big canoe
In the big rock candy mountains
in the big rock candy mountains
the jails are made of tin
and you can walk right out again
as soon as you are in
there ain't no short handled shovels
no axes, saws or picks
oh i'm gonna stay where you sleep all day
where they hung the turk that invented work
in the big rock candy mountains
i'll see you all this coming fall
in the big rock candy mountains

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

cold be hand and heart and bone
and cold be sleep under stone
never more to wake on stony bed
never, till the sun fails and the moon is dead
In the black wind the stars shall die
and still on gold here let them lie
till the dark lord lifts his hand
over dead sea and withered land

nephilim

sturm und drang

if my lips couldn't kiss my baby no more
youd find em wrapped around a bottle or a .44

if i cant' have a drink of that wine
youre gonna make me feel like i oughtta start dyin
(don't wnna die at all)
i loved that girl when her hair was long
i love that sweet thing still and thats why i write this song

winter change to summer summer change to fall
i cant change for nobody at all
thats why i gotta go away

fall change to winter winter change to spring
gimme a shot of that everclear and i won't feel a thing
drown all my troubles away
(jesus don't leave)

fall

this little light of mine
i’m gonna let it shine
this little light of mine
i’m gonna let it shine
this little light of mine
i’m gonna let it shine
let it shine, let it shine, let it shine

hide it under a bushel no
i’m gonna let it shine
hide it under a bushel no
i’m gonna let it shine
hide it under a bushel no
i’m gonna let it shine
let it shine, let it shine, let it shine

won’t let satan blow it out
i’m gonna let it shine
won’t let satan blow it out
i’m gonna let it shine
won’t let satan blow it out
i’m gonna let it shine
let it shine, let it shine, let it shine

this little light of mine

blind willie mctell

delia, delia, how can it be
say you love old rounders and don't love me
now she's one more rounder gone
delia, delia, says I'm all alone
some of you rounders gonna pay my way back home
cause she's one more rounder gone
sitting on the house top, high as i could see
say you love old rounders and don't love me
now she's one more rounder gone
delia's poor mother took a little trip out west
when she returned little delia was lying in rest
now she's one more rounder gone
delia's mother weeped, delia's father moaned
they wouldn't have hated it so bad if that child had died at home
but she's all i got and gone
delia was a gambler, running all around
she was one girl that never let the deal go down
now she's one more rounder gone

rubber-tired buggy, double-seated hack
took little Delia to the cemetery but failed to bring her back
now she's one more rounder gone
delia was a gambler, running all around
she was one girl that never let the deal go down
and she's one more rounder gone
delia looking high, kenny looking low
shot poor delia down with that hateful 44
now she's one more rounder gone
delia, delia, take no one's advice
Last word I heard her say was jesus christ
now she's one more rounder gone
kenny's sitting in the barroom drinking from a silver cup
delia she's in the graveyard, may not never wake up
now she's one more rounder gone
judge said to kenny, what was that fuss about
all on account of them gamblers trying to put me out
now she's one more rounder gone
judge said to kenny, i'm gonna tell you a natural fact
son you're gonna stay 'til little delia come back
now she's one more rounder gone

little delia

hexe_II

lyrics partially lifted from blind willie mctell

grave

wish

charmin betsy

jesse fuller cover

well i'm crazy bout a woman who live in the neighborhood
she the kinda woman don't mean nobody no good
gonna leave her like a farmer when we first make to lovin baby
nobody in this world can get along with u
she got ways like a devil sleepin in a lions den pretty mama
came home last night, she wouldnt let me in
sometimes she just as pretty as anybody wanna be
then she gets a crazy notion, runnin all over me well
i'm getting mighty tired of you always doggin me round pretty mama
the way she do make a preacher lay his bible down

i helped u when u had no shoes on ur feet, lovin baby
when it rain outdoors, you had nothin to eat
ur the kinda woman i just can't understand lovin baby
you take all my money, give it to another man
when u wake up in the morning, always wake up late
right down to the corner tryna get urself a date 
well u give me the blues an i guess youre satisfied
i feel so bad i wanna lie down and die

crazy bout a woman

orchard

took my baby down to the ocean
took my baby down to the sea
have a drink have a little time
have 1 sail w/ me

my little girl she was petrified
yes little rosie couldnt see
floating on the waters neath the moonlight
i gave my rosie back 2 the sea

when im 6 ft under clay i will meet her
in the darkest pit of hell
shell say are u happy what u did
only time will tell

rosie

joke

the alchemist

elizabeth cotten

been all around this whole round world
lord i just got back today
work all the week hon and i give it all to you
honey baby what more can i do
oh babe it aint no lie
oh babe it aint no lie
oh babe it aint no lie
u know this life i'm living is very high

one old woman lord in this town
keep a telling her lies on me
wish to my soul that old woman would die
keep a tellin her lies on me
oh babe it aint no lie
oh babe it aint no lie
oh babe it aint no lie
u know this life I'm living is very high


o babe it aint no lie

traditional

railroad Bill, railroad bill
he never worked and he never will
and it's ride ride ride

railroad bill, so mean and so bad
whupped his poor Mammy, shot a round at his dad
one morning just before day

railroad bill, standing on the hill
rolling a joint out a 20 dollar bill
and it's ride, ride, ride

railroad bill took my wife
said if u dont like it u can take my life
well im gonna try railroad bill

buy me a pistol just as long as my arm
shoot everybody ever done me harm
i’m gonna ride ride ride

goin' up the mountain, to take my stand
.38 Special in my righteous hands
and its ride ride ride

goin up the mountain, goin out west
gonna find old willie put a hole right in his chest
im gonna ride like railroad bill

38 special in a 45 frame
drive some lead right through that fuckers brain
yeah its ride ride ride

gonna drink my whiskey, drink it and win
the doctor said it'd kill me but he didn't say when
and its ride ride ride

calliopetragedy

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