Doc Watson

Alberta let your hair hang low I saw her first on an april morn' As she walked through the mist in a field of hay Her hair lit the world with its golden glow And the smile on her face burned my heart away Alberta let your hair hang low Alberta let your hair h...

Joy at the start Fear in the journey Joy in the coming home A part of the heart Gets lost in the learning Somewhere along the road Along the road Your path may wander A pilgrim's faith may fail Absence makes the heart grow stronger Darkness obscures the trail...

I wonder if I'll ever forget you And if our love that's true ever dies I can't forget the kisses you gave me Or memories of your two baby blue eyes I'll always keep a memory of you Visions of eyes as blue as the sky And that's why each night there's tears on...

I asked my love to take a walk Just a little way away While we walk along we'll talk Talk about our wedding day (R) Only say that you'll be mine And in our home we'll happy be Down beside where the waters flow Down on the banks of the Ohio I drew my knife ac...

Johnny is a joker (he's a bird) A very funny joker (he's a bird) But when he jokes my honey (he's a dog) His jokin' ain't so funny (what a dog) Johnny is a joker that's a'tryin' to steal my baby (he's a bird dog) Hey, bird dog get away from my quail Hey, bird...

Blue railroad train, I'm goin' down the railroad track It makes me feel so doggone blue to listen to that old smokestack Drivers a-rollin' on, leavin' me here behind Give me back them good old days and let me ramble down the line Blue railroad train, leavin'...

Blues stay away from me Blues why don't you let me be Don't know why A You keep on hounting me Love was never meant for me True love was never meant for me It seems somehow We never can agree Blues stay away from me Blues why don't you let me be Don't know...

I was born about six thousand years ago They ain't nothin' in this world that I don't know I saw Old King Pharaoh's daughter find Little Moses on the water And I can whip the man that says it isn't so I saw Noah when he built that famous ark I slipped into it...

Hard luck poppa counting his toes You can smell his feet wherever he goes Lord, lord, got those Brown's Ferry Blues Hard luck poppa don't do his stiff Trouble with him he's been too rough Lord, lord, got those Brown's Ferry Blues Two old maids a-sitting in th...

I got a big surprise when I saw you smile I never dreamed that it could be But now I realize since I saw you smile There's only happiness for me So Bye bye blues Bye bye blues Bells ring Birds sing Sun is shining No more pining Just we two Smiling thru Don't...

When I was a boy, I had to know, what I would find just over the hill And while still a lad, I had to go, and so you see I'm rambling still life's golden cup,for me was filled, with happiness, and measures untold, but i left the one, who cared for me, a trea...

Way down in Columbus Georgia Lord I wish I was back in Tennessee Way down in that old Columbus Stockade My friends all have turned their back on me. Go and leave me if you wish to Never let me cross your mind In your heart you love another Leave me, little d...

Come all you good time people While I've got money to spend Tomorrow might be Monday And I'd neither have a dollar nor a friend Well I've got plenty of money in my pocket My good time friends are around But as soon as my pocketbook is empty Not a friend on...

You get a line and I'll get a pole , honey You get a line and I'll get a pole babe You get a line and I'll get a pole we'll go down to the crawdad hole honey, sugar baby mine Sit on the bank til my feet get cold honey Sit on the bank til my feet get cold bab...

She's my curly headed baby She's from sunny Tennessee She's my curly headed baby She's more than all the world to me I have loved her since I met her (yes sir) More than any tongue can tell If she ever prove falls hearted It would be so hard to say farewell Y...

Oh, listen today to the story I tell, It's sadned with tear dimmed eyes, Of a dreadful cyclone that came this way, And blew our schoolhouse away. Rye Cove, Rye Cove The place of my childhood and home, Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam, But now it...

Let it rain, let it pour, Let it rain a whole lot more, 'Cause I got them deep river blues. Let the rain drive right on, Let the waves sweep along, 'Cause I got them deep river blues. My old gal's a good old pal, And she looks like a water fowl, When...

On a frosty night It began to snow Down the city street Oh the wind it blowed We all went to the cellar Yes, we cleared out the bar To hear a little old fella Play some pretty guitar Did you hear John Hurt Play his Creole Belle? Or the Spanish Fandango That h...

Don't tell me your troubles I got troubles of my own Don' t tell me your troubles Leave me alone Leave me alone Go on home Tell it to a friend I got troubles of my own You say your sweet love left you And what to think about me I got them same old heartaches...

Well it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe, If'n you don't know by now. It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe. It'll never do, somehow. When the rooster crows at the break of dawn look out your window and I'll be gone You're the reason I'm traveli...

As I went down in the valley to pray Studyin' about that good old way And who shall wear the stary crown Good Lord, show me the way Oh fathers let's go down Let's go down come on down Oh fathers let's go down Down in the valley to pray As I went down in the v...

A miner was leaving his home for his work When he heard his little child scream. He went to the side of the little girl's bed; She said, "Daddy, I've had such a dream!" "Please, daddy, don't go to the mines today, For dreams have so often come true. My daddy,...

Tempted and tried, we're oft made to wonder Why it should be thus all the day long; While there are others living about us, Never molested, though in the wrong. When death has come and taken our loved ones, Leaving our home so lone and so drear, Then do we wo...

This is, this is the, huh, this is the first song I ever learned, actually Frankie and johnny were sweethearts Lordy, how they could love Swore to be true to each other Yeah, true to the skies above He was her man, wouldn't do her no wrong And frankie and jo...

I was born in Dixie in a boomer shed Just a little shanty by the railroad track Freight train was it taught me how to cry The holler of the driver was my lullaby I got the freight train blues Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes And when...

Casey Jones he was a mighty man And now he's resting in the promised land The only kind of music he could understand Was an big eight wheel driver under his command He made the freight train boogie All the time He made the freight train boogie As he rolled do...

A frog went a-courtin' and he did ride, M-hm, M-hm. A frog went a-courtin' and he did ride, Sword and pistol by his side, M-hm, M-hm. He rode up to Miss Mousie's door, M-hm, M-hm, He rode up to Miss Mousie's door, Where he'd often been before, M-hm, M-hm. He...

Georgie Buck is dead The last thing he said "Don't put no shortnin' in my bread." Georgie Buck is dead The last thing he said "Don't put no shortnin' in my bread." Down the road Down the road I see Trouble in my way Trouble in my way Trouble in my way down t...

Oh, it's going down the road feeling bad Bad luck's all I've ever had Going down the road feeling bad, Lord, Lord And I aint' a-gonna be treated this a-way Got me way down in jail on my knees This old jailer he sure is hrd to please Feed me corn, bread and pe...

I'm gonna lay down my old guitar Gonna lay down my old guitar Oh I wish I could tie it to my side And take it along with me There's no one to cry for me There's no one to cry for me I've wandered so far away don't you see And there's no one to cry for me I'm...

My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf So it stood ninety years on the floor It was taller by half than the old man himself And it weight not a penny's weight more It was bought on the morn that my grandpa was born And was always his treasure and p...

I remember as a boy How I'd wander and enjoy I'd watch the trains as they'd go by And the whistle's lonely sound You could hear for miles around As they rolled across that Greenville trestle high. But the whistles don't sound like they used to Lately not many...

Does your concience ever bother you When somebody calls my name Trie to think of all that I've gone through And hang your head in shame Someone came along and took my place Then you gave me all the blame You should go somewhere and hide your face And hang you...

Down the highway of sorrow I'm traveling alone I've lost all my true friends And I lost a happy home. I'm headed for destruction I'm on the wrong track Down the highway of sorrow There's no turning back. Once I had a darling wife She was kind, true, and sweet...

How long, baby how long, Has that evening train been gone? [Chorus] How long, How how long, Baby how long? Went to the station, didn't see no train. Down in my heart, I have an aching pain. [Chorus] I feel disgusted, I feel so bad Thinking 'bout the good t...

I am a pilgrim and a stranger Travelling through this wearsome land I've got a home in that yonder city, good Lord And it's not not made by hand I've got a father, a son, a mother, and a brother The've gone gone home to the other shore I am determined to g...

Tonight I'm sad my heart is weary Wondering if I'm wrong or right To think about you though you left me I wonder where you are tonight The rain is cold and slowly falling Upon my window pane tonight And though your love seems even colder I wonder where you ar...

I'm a stranger here, just blowed in your town Yes, I am, I'm a stranger here, just blowed in your town And just because I'm a stranger, you don't have to dog me 'round Well, I wonder why some people treat the strangers so Sometimes I wonder why some people tr...

I left my old home in the mountains And the only friends I've ever had. And though I have traveled this world over My heart's been so lonesome and sad. I'm going back to the old home, Back to the place I love so well Where the sweet waters flow And the wildf...

I walked down the hill about twelve a clock I sat right down on a great big rock I looked down the water en blessed my soul I seen a great big catfish jumpin' that hole I'm a gonna fishin 'cause everybody's fishing And I'm a gonna fishing too You bet your li...

If I needed you, would you come to me Would you come to me for to ease my pain If you needed me I could come to you I would swim the seas for to ease your pain Well the night's forlorn and the morning's born And the morning's born with the lights of love And...

I had a friend named Camble, eat, cheat and steal and gamble And I guess he tried most ever' thing low down He was out tomcattin' one night when he started a great big fight Then a big policeman came and snapped him down He's in the jailhouse now, he's in th...

The other night when I come in, so drunk I couldn't see I hooked my toe in the old doormat and fell as flat as I could be I had me a little old bottle o' booze (and I didn't have no more) When I fell down - the cork flew outta the bottle (Plop!-glug glug glu...

The way I been treated, some time I wish I was dead; The way I been treated, some time I wish I was dead; (Spoken) Lord know... 'Cause I ain't got no place To lay my weary head. (Yodel) When I want you, woman, I always find you gone; Ev'rytime I want you, alw...

There's a dark and a troubled side of life There's a bright and a sunny side too Though we meet with the darknest of strife The sunny side we also may view Keep on the sunny side Always on the sunny side Keep on the sunny side of life It will help us every da...

There's a dark and rolling sea between my love and me As I walk through this cold, lonesome town As I wish for a better day I need a place to stay If it's just a floor to spread my blanket down If I could beg, steal or borrow A ticket on some old ship or plan...

Oh, yonder stand Little Maggie With her dram glass in her hand She's a-drinkin' away all her troubles And a-courtin' some other man Lord, how can I ever stand it For to see them pretty blue eyes A-spidin' at another Like two diamonds in the midnight sky Come...

"No home, no home," said a little girl At the door of a rich man's home. She trembling stood on the marble steps, And leaned on the polished wall. Her clothes were thin and her feet were bare, And the snowflakes covered her head. "Let me come in," she feebly...

Went out last night to take a little round, I met my Little Sadie and I blowed her down. I run right home and I went to bed, A forty-four smokeless under my head. I begin to think what a deed I done, I grabbed my hat and away'd I'd run. I made a good run,...

Honey, make me down a pallet on your floor Make me down a pallet on your floor Honey, make it down, make it soft and low Then maybe my good gal she won't know I'm goin' up the country through the sleedin' snow Goin' up the country through the sleedin' snow I'...

Well, I woke up this mornin' looked out my door I thought I'd hear that milk cow, I can tell the way she lore If you see my milk cow, please drive her on home Ain't had no milk and butter, woo, since that cow got gone Now you've gotta treat me right, day by d...

I'm groing tired of the big city lights Tired of the glamour, tired of the size I'm alway dreaming of roaming once more Back to my home on the old river shore Days are dark and dreary everwhere I roam How I long for Mississippi and you Nothing seems to cheer...

Moody River, more deadly Than the vainest knife Moody River, your muddy water Took my baby's life Last Saturday evening Came to the old oak tree It stands beside the river Where you were to meet me On the ground your glove I found With a note addressed to me...

There's more pretty girls than one More pretty girls then one Every old town that I rambled around And there's more pretty girls than one Mama talked to me last night She gave me some good advise She said "Son, you'd better quit this old ramblin' all around A...

There's a big holler tree down the road here from me where ya lay Down a dollar er two. Well you go round the bend and when you come Back again there's a jug full o' good ole mountain dew Oh they call it that ole mountain dew and them that refuse it are fe...

Muskrat, Muskrat, wha makes your head so slick? I've been a-livin' in the water so long, it's a wonder I ain't sick, I ain't sick, I ain't sick... Well, Groundhog, Groundhog, why is your back so brown? It's a wonder I don't smother to death from livin' In t...

I'm a gonna leave here monday morning Oh, I'm a gonna leave here monday morning Oh, I'm a gonna leave here monday morning Oh, I never expect to see you anymore My home's across this blue ridge mountains My home's across the blue ridge mountains My home's acro...

She bloom for me on a little village In a cabin on the hill We made our vows to love eachother And I know we always will She's my rose of old Kentucky I watch her bloom as the years roll by And I know there'll never be another I love her till the day I die I...

For years and years I've rambled I drank my wine and gambled And then one day I thought I'd settle down I met a sweet little lady And she told me she'd be my baby We bought a cottage on the old hometown (Yodel) I can't forget my rough and rowdy ways Them old...

I've got the blues, those Nashville blues I've got the blues, those Nashville blues Ain't got no hat, ain't got no shoes The people here they treat me fine The people here they treat me fine They give me beer and they give me wine I'm a-going back to Arkansa...

Oh, listen to my story, I'll tell you no lies, How John Lewis did murder poor little Omie Wise. He told her to meet him at Adams's Springs. He promised her money and other fine things. So, fool-like she met him at Adams's Springs. No money he brought her nor...

Step up, buddies, and listen to my song I'll sing it to you right, but you may sing it wrong, All about a man named Otto Wood, I can't tell you all, but I wish I could. He walked in a pawn shop a rainy day, And with the clerk he had a quarrel, they say. Pulle...

Precious Lord Take My hand lead me on let me stand Lord I'm tired weak and I'm worn Through the storm through the night Lead me on to the light Precious Lord take my hand, lead me on When my friends don't understand And they fail to lend a hand When my load g...

Just a mile west of the water tank On a cold November day. In a cold and lonesome box car A dyin hobo lay His pal sat there before him With a low and drooping head Listening to the last words His dying buddy said Goodbye old pardner hobo I hate to say goodby...

No matter what I say or do You're never satisfied I've tried to please you too many times So now I'm leaving you now goodbye Riding on that midnight train Lord my head's a hanging low These awful blues will follow me Wherever I may go Why on earth was I ever...

There is a house down in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of a many poor boy And me, oh God , for one Then fill the glasses to the brim Let the drinks go merrily around And we'll drink to the health of a rounder poor boy Who goes f...

I ain't gonna work on the railroad I ain't gonna work on the farm I'll lay around the shack till the mail train comes back I'm rollin' in my sweet baby's arms Rollin' in my sweet baby's arms Rollin' in my sweet baby's arms Gonna lay around the shack till th...

Shady Grove, my little love Shady Grove I say Shady Grove, my little love I'm bound to go away Cheeks as red a a blooming rose And eyes are the prettiest brown She's the darling of my heart Sweetest girl in towm Shady Grove, my little love Shady Grove I say...

Was in the spring One sunny day My sweetheart left me Lord, she went away And now she's gone And I dont' worry Lord, I'm sitting On top of the world She called me up From down in Al Paso She said "Come back, daddy Ooh, I need you so" And now she's gone And I...

Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean The unborn grass lies waiting For its coat to turn to green The snowbird sings the song he always sings And speaks to me of flowers That will bloom again in spring When I was young my heart was young then too Anything...

My name is Juanano de Castro My father was a Spanish Grandee But I won my wife in a card game To hell with those lords o'er the sea Well the South Coast is wild coast and lonely You might win in a game at Cholon But a lion still rules the Barranca And a man t...

John Henry was a steel drivin' boy But he went down Yes, he went down He went down Take my hammer and give it to the capt'n Boys, tell him I'm gone You can tell him I'm gone Yes, tell him I'm gone This old hammer done kill John Henry And it don't kill me No...

Early one morning at the St. James Hospital Early one morning morn in the month of may When i looked through the window and a spyed a dear cowboy A dear cowboy as cold as the clay Set ye down by me and hear my sad story Set ye down by me and sing me a son...

I hate to see that evening sun go down I hate to see that evening sun go down Cause my baby, he's gone left this town Feelin' tomorrow like I feel today If I'm feelin' tomorrow like I feel today I'll pack my truck and make my give-a-way St. Louis woman with...

Me and my baby walkin' down the street Tellin' everybody bout the chief of police Gotta step it up and go yeah go Can't stand pat swear you gotta step it up and go ( banjo ) I know a little girl she lives upstairs Tryin' to make a livin' by puttin' on airs Sh...

Don't know why There's no sun up in the sky Stormy weather When me and my gal ain't together Just keeps rainin' all the time Just keeps rainin' all the time Life is bare, Gloom and misery everywhere Stormy weather I just can't get poor myself together And i...

This long steel rail a short crosstie I'm on my way back home I'm on a train the king of them all that Streamlined Cannonball She moves along like a cannonball like a star in its havenly flight This lonesome sound from the whistle you love as she travels thro...

Summertime and the livin' is easy Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high Oh your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin' So hush little babby, don't you cry One of these mornings You're going to rise up singing Then you'll spread your wings And you'll take...

Well let me tell you well no chick made Could be the same As Sweet Georgia Brown. Crazy feet that dance so neat Has sweet Georgia Brown. Fella's sigh, and even cry For sweet Georgia Brown. I tell you just why You know I don't lie. It's been said She knocks the...

Talk about sufferin' here below And talk about lovin' Jesus. Talk about sufferin' here below And let's keep a-followin' Jesus. The gospel train is coming; Now, don't you want to go An' leave this world of trials An' troubles here below? Oh, can't you hear it,...

Along about eighteen twenty-five, I left Tennessee very much alive. I never would have got through the Arkansas mud If I hadn't been a-ridin' on the Tennessee Stud. I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa, And one of her brothers was a bad outlaw. I s...

It's a lesson too late for the learnin', Made of sand, made of sand. In the wink of an eye my soul is turnin' In your hand, in your hand. Are you goin' away with no word of farewell ? Will there be not a trace left behind ? I could have loved you better...

One night while out for a ramble the hour was just about nine I met a young maiden in Frisco on the corner of Cherry and Pine On her face there was beauty of nature and her eyes just seemed to expand Her hair was so rich and so brilliant entwined in a blue vel...

We've met, we've met, my old true love We've met, we've met, said he I've just returned from the salt, salt sea And it's all for the love of thee I could have married the King's daughter fair She would have married me But I've forsaken her crown of gold And i...

There it stands by the fire with it's back to the wall That old wooden rocker, so stately and tall With naught to disturb it but dusting of broom And no one to use it in that parlor room As she sat by the fire, she would rock, rock, rock And she heard but the...

I gave my love a cherry that had no stone I gave my love a chicken that had no bone I gave my love a baby with no crying And told my love a story that had no end How can there be a cherry that has no stone How can there be a chicken that has no bone How can t...

Where was you when the train left town? I's standin' on the corner with my head hung down. Hey, the train carried my girl from town, Hey, hey, hey, hey. Spoken: That's kinda the way she sounded when she's rollin' away from the depot... If I had a gun I'd let...

I'm three times seven and I do as I doggone please There ain't no woman this side of heaven gonna get me on my knees I'm three times seven, gals, and that makes twentyone Lord, I just won't tame: I'm gonna be the same 'till I'm three times twen-tyone I make m...

Hang your head, Tom Dooley, Hang your head and cry; You killed poor Laurie Foster, And you know you're bound to die. You left her by the roadside Where you begged to be excused; You left her by the roadside, Then you hid her clothes and shoes. Hang your head,...

From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore The green old flowing mountains to the south down by the moor She's mighty tall and handsome she's know quite well by all Regular combination on the Wabash Cannonball Listen to the jingle, the rumble and...

I was born one mornin', The rain a-pourin' down, Heard my mammy say to my pappy, "Let's call him John Henry Brown." Walk on, boy; walk on down the road; Ain't nobody in this whole wide world A-gonna help you carry your load. I left my mammy and pappy Just ab...

I go out walkin' after midnight Out in the moonlight, just hoping you may be Somewhere a-walkin' after midnight Searchin' for me I walk for miles along the highway It's just my way of sayin' I love you I'm always walkin' after midnight Searchin' for you I st...

Walkin' boss Walkin' boss Yes you're the boss But I don't belong to you. I belong Yes, I belong And I can get along With that steel drivin' crew When I asked that boss man For a job I said I wanna job He said "Son, what can you do?" I can line track I can l...

Till I became a wanted man, I never owned a gun, But now they hunt me like a mountain cat, And I'm always, always, always on the run I killed poor Jed Bryant In a bad Laredo fight, Killed him with my bare hands For the girl I loved that night. Jed's brother's...

Way downtown just foolin' around Took me to the jail It's oh me and it's oh my No one to go my bail It was late last night when Willie came home I heard him a-rapping on the door He's a-slipping and a-sliding with his new shoes on Mamma said Willie don't you...

She stood on the beach alone And gazed at the misty blue Saying, "Sea, as you hold him to your breast, does he mention my name to you?" Oh, where is my sailor boy? Where is my sailor boy? He sleeps at the bottom of the deep blue sea And he can't come back to...

Brother how far, from the saviour today Risking your soul, for the things that he gave Oh if today, God should call you away What would you give, in exchange for your soul What would you give, in exchange, what would you give, in exhange What would you give,...

I got those worried blues And I got those worried blues I got those worried blues I got those worried blues Lord, I'm a-going where I never been before I'm going where the chilly winds don't blow I'm going where the chilly winds don't blow I'm going where the...

On a dark stormy night not a star was in sight As the north wind came howling down the line Stood a brave engineer with his sweetheart so dear And his orders to pull ole number nine She kissed him goodbye with a tear in her eye And the joy in his heart he cou...

I'm going to the racetrack to see my pony run If he won some money gonna take my good gals on Yeah, you don't know, you don't know my mind When you see me laughing I'm laughing just to keep from crying I left my frump standing in the door Lookin' after me a-c...