Shenandoah Waltz

In the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia Lives a girl who is waiting there for me Many times we have waltzed in the moonlight And in her lovely arms I long to be I miss her smile in the moonlight But I know she misses me too In the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia I know that […]

Love Someone Like Me

That dancing moon is on the water Do you feel inclined romantically? If you do, I think you oughtta Love someone like me Ain’t no place you should be goin’ Ain’t no need for you to leave It’s a lovers’ night, the stars are showin’ You need to love someone like me Someone else might […]

Love Or Confusion

Is that the stars in the sky or is it raining far from now? Will it burn me if I touch the sun, so bit, so round? Will I be truthful, yeah, in choosing you as the one for me? Is this love baby, or is it-a just confusion? Oh, my mind is so mixed […]

Love Me Darlin’, Just Tonight

Love me, darling just tonight Take your arms hold me tight Tommorrow you may hold another Love me, darling just tonight Try to find true love in your heart Tommorrow we may not have to part But if you feel you must leave me Love me, darling just tonight * Refrain You say tommorrow you […]

Santa Train

It’s Christmas time and I can’t wait Mama hurry don’t be late Let’s go down to the railroad tracks Santa Train is coming back Hoo Hoo Here it Comes Hoo Hoo Santa Train Hoo Hoo Get on Board Hoo Hoo Santa Train From Shelbiana through Elkhorn Pass Up the grade and down to Dante All […]

Seven Bridges Road

There are stars In the Southern sky Southward as you go There is moonlight And moss in the trees Down the Seven Bridges Road Now I have loved you like a baby Like some lonesome child And I have loved you in a tame way And I have loved you wild Sometimes there’s a part […]

Shackles & Chains

On a long lonesome journey I’m going Oh darling please don’t you cry In these shackles and chains they will take me To a prison to stay ’til I die And at night through the bars I will gaze at the stars And dream of your kisses in vain A piece of stone I will […]

Sharecropper’s Son

We moved here from somewhere when I was fourteen Worked this poor ground for bacon and beans Landlord told me, hard times is near Didn’t mean a thing ’cause they’re already here Daylight till dark my work’s never done Lord have mercy on this sharecropper’s son Mama’s got the fever and the baby’s sick too […]

Look Up, Look Down That Lonesome Road

Look up, look down that lonesome road Hang down your little head and cry my love Hang down your little head and cry The best of friends must part some time And why not you and I my love And why not you and I The longest train i ever saw Went down that Georgia […]

Sally Goodin

Often played as an instrumental Had a piece of pie an’ I had a piece of puddin’, An’ I give it all away just to see my Sally Goodin. Had a piece of pie an’ I had a piece of puddin’, An’ I give it all away just to see my Sally Goodin. Well, I […]

Turn The Page

On a long and lonesome highway East of Omaha You can listen to the engine Moanin’ out his one note song You can think about the woman Or the girl you knew the night before But your thoughts will soon be wandering The way they always do When you’re ridin’ sixteen hours And there’s nothin’ […]

Two Girls

Well, the clouds didn’t look like cotton They didn’t even look like clouds I was underneath the weather and all my friends looked a crowd The swimmin’ hole was full of rum I tried to find out why Well, all I learned was this my friend You got to swim before you fly I got […]

Two Hands

I got two hands I wanna clap my hands together I got two legs I wanna dance to heavens door I got one heart I gonna fill it up with up Jesus And I ain’t gonna think about trouble anymore Well now, this old world sometimes it does get lonesome And it’s many a grown […]

Time To Move On

It’s time to move on, time to get going What lies ahead, I have no way of knowing But under my feet, baby, grass is growing It’s time to move on, it’s time to get going Broken skyline, movin’ through the airport She’s an honest defector Conscientious objector Now her own protector Broken skyline, which […]

To Lay Me Down

To lay me down, once more To lay me down with my head in sparklin clover To lay me down, one last time, to lay me down To be with you, once more, to be with you. With our bodies close together Let the world go by, like the clouds astreamin To lay me down, […]

Today

Lost forever is yesterday And I don’t believe in tomorrow I used to dream of a pot of gold And it only brought me sorrow I used to think that the road stretched on Till it went this whole world round But now I’ve learned to live my life Before the sun goes down For […]

Tom Dooley

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, Tom Dooley, Hang your head […]

Train On The Island

Train on the island listen to her squeal Go and tell my true love how happy I do feel Go and tell my true love how happy I do feel Train on the island headed for the west Go and tell my true love the girl I love the best Go and tell my true […]

Traveling The Highway Home

Traveling the highway home I’m traveling the highway home Oh narrow’s the way thank God I can say I’m traveling the highway home Going toward the sunset of time Traveling the highway home Rid this world of sin far behind Traveling the highway home I’m traveling… Well ol’ Satan said I’d never be Traveling the […]