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Walkin' down this railroad track I got tears in my eyes Tryin' to read a letter from my home If this train runs me right I'll be home tomorrow night I'm 900 miles from my home And I hate to hear that lonesome whistle blow Well this train I ride on Is a hundre...

If all the grasses are yellow Then what color are the tears That are shed for all the young fellows In the armies along the frontiers If all the grasses are purple Then what color is the sky Under which young men are marching For none know the reason w...

Sometimes I'm in the mood, I wanna leave my lonesome home And sometimes I'm in the mood, I wanna hear my milk cow moan And sometimes I'm in the mood, I wanna hit that highway road But then again, I said oh, I said oh, I said oh, I said Oh babe, I'm in the...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe It don't matter, anyhow And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don't know by now When your rooster crows at the break of dawn Look out your window , oh baby,I'll be gone You're the reason...

I never had a pocket full of money I never had a ruby red ring All I ever had was you, babe To sit and listen to me sing I got the blues The empty pocket blues And I never had a barrel full of money Never had a big Cadillac All I ever had was you, bab...

The river is wide, I can't get o'er Nor do I have like wings to fly Give me a boat that can carry two, And both shall cross my love and I Oh waly, waly, up the bank And waly, waly down the braes, And waly, waly by yon burnside Where me and my love was...

If I had wings Like a north dove I'd fly across the river To the one I love Fare thee well, my honey Fare thee well Woke up this morning It was drizzling rain Around my heart Felt an aching pain Fare thee well, my honey Fare thee well One of thes...

go, tell it on the mountain over the hills and everywhere go, tell it on the mountain that jesus christ is born while shepherds kept their watching over silent flocks by night behold throughout the heavens there shone a holy light go, tell it on the mountain...

Can't you see I gotta be me Ain't nobody Just like this I gotta be me Baby hit or miss Sitting here All by myself Trying to be Everybody else Can't you see I gotta be me Ain't nobody just like this I gotta be me Baby hit or miss Look at you si...

There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun It's been the ruin of a many a poor girl And me, oh God, are one If I had listened like momma said I would not be here today But being so young and foolish, oh god That a gambler lead me astray...

As I went a-walkin' Down by the seashore A wind did whistle And the water did roar I met a young woman Made a pitiful cry Said "I never will marry For the days of my life." The shells in the ocean Will be my deathbed The fish in deep water Will swim...

John Henry was a little baby, Sittin; on his momma's knee, Said, "The Big Bend Tunnel on the C & O Road Is gonna be the death of me, Lord, Be the death of me." When John Henry was a little baby, Sittin' on his poppa's knee, He took a hammer, a litt...

When i was a little bitty baby My mother would rock me in the cradle, In them old cotton fields back home; When i was a little bitty baby My mother would rock me in the cradle, In them old cotton fields back home; Oh, when them cotton bolls get rot...

My own love said to me 'My mother won't mind And my father won't slight you for your lack of kind' And he laid his hand on me and this he did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day' He went away from me, And he moved through the fair And...

The fox went out to the chase one night Prayed to the moon to give him light He had many a mile to go that night Before he reached the town-o, town-o town-o, Many a mile to go that night before he reached the town Many a mile to go that night before he re...

There was a lofty ship And she put out to see And the name of that ship Was The Golden Vanity She sailed along the lonesome sea She had not been out For two weeks or three When she was overtaken By the Turkish Revelry She sailed along the lonesome se...

Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the...

If today was not an endless highway, If tonight was not a crooked trail, If tomorrow wasn't such a long time, Then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all. Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin', Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly pound...

Waterboy, where are you hiding If you don't come right here Gonna tell you pa on you There ain't no hammer That's on a this mountain That ring like mine boy That ring like mine I'm gonna bust this rock boy From here to the Macon All the way to the ja...

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