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Oh, listen to the train Coming down the line Trying to make up for all of her lost time From Buffalo to Washington
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You can wash my jumper Starch my overalls Catch a train they call the Cannonball From Buffalo to Washington
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Yonder comes a train Comin' down the track To carry me away, but it ain't gonna carry me back My honey babe, my blue-eyed babe
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My baby's left me, She even took my shoes Enough to give me the doggone weary blues She's gone, she's solid gone
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I'm going up north I'm going up north this fall If my luck don't change I won't be back at all My honey babe, I'm leaving you
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CAN THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN
I was standing by my window On one cold and cloudy day And I saw the hearse come rolling For to carry my mother away
Can the circle be unbroken
Bye and bye, Lord, bye and bye
There's a better home a-waiting
In the sky, Lord, in the sky
Oh, I told the undertaker Undertaker, please drive slow For this body you are hauling How I hate to see her go
Can the circle be unbroken
Bye and bye, Lord, bye and bye
There's a better home a-waiting
In the sky, Lord, in the sky
Lord, I followed close beside her Tried to hold up and be brave But I could not hide my sorrow When they laid her in the grave
Can the circle be unbroken
Bye and bye, Lord, bye and bye
There's a better home a-waiting
In the sky, Lord, in the sky
Went back home Lord, My home was lonely
Since my mother she had gone
All my brothers, sisters crying
What a home so sad and lone
Can the
circle be unbroken
Bye and bye, Lord,
bye and bye
There's a better home a-waiting
In the sky, Lord, in the sky
CAN'T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE
This world is not my home, I'm just passing through
My treasures and my hopes are all beyond the blue
Where many many friends and kindred have gone on before
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
Over in Glory land, there is no dying there
The saints are shouting victory and singing everywhere
I hear the voice of them that I have heard before
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
Oh, lord, you know I have no friend like you
If heaven's not my home, oh, lord, what would I do
Angels beckon me to heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
Heaven's expecting me, that's one thing I know
I fixed it up with Jesus a long time ago
He will take me through though I am weak and poor
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
Oh, I have a loving mother over in Glory land
I don't expect to stop until I shake her hand
She's gone on before, just waiting at heaven's door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
Oh, lord, you know I have no friend like you
If heaven's not my home, oh, lord, what would I do
Angels beckon me to heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
CARTERS' BLUES (CARTER'S BLUES)
As I woke up one morning fair
To view the fields and take the air
For to view the fields and the meadows around
I thought I heard some mournful sound
I thought I heard my true love say
"Oh, do turn and come this way"
Yodel-ay-ee, oh-lay-ee, ay-oh-lay-ee
You love some other, you don't love me
You care not for my company
You love some other, and I know why
Because he has more gold than I
But gold will melt and silver will fly
My love for you will never die
Yodel-ay-ee, oh-lay-ee, ay-oh-lay-ee
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There is a flower, I've heard them say
That can be seen from day to day
And if that flower I only could find
To cure this aching heart of mine
Yodel-ay-ee, oh-lay-ee, ay-oh-lay-ee
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So fare you well, my charming little love
Oh, meet me in that land above
And when we meet there in that land
We'll take no more this parting hand
Yodel-ay-ee, oh-lay-ee, ay-oh-lay-ee
CHARLIE AND NELLIE
Dear Nellie, since I left the city I find I've changed my mind I hope you won't think me untruthful Or d&127; me the least unkind
I think we're both mistaken I know you'll never suit me I owe my heart to another Of course, kind friends will agree
Please send me my ring and picture Also my letters and books I close with many kind wishes Respectfully yours, Charlie Brooks
I heard all about it, dear Charlie I knew it would end this way I hope you will always live happy With your loving little wife, Miss Gray
Here is your ring, dear Charlie Don't give it to her, I pray Unless you tell her 'twas once mine I bore it one year today
CHEWING GUM
Mama sent me to the spring She told me not to stay I fell in love with a pretty little girl Could not get away
Chawin' chewin' gum, chewin' chawin' gum
Chawin' chewin' gum, chewin' chawin' gum
First she give me peaches Then she give me pears Then she give me fifty cents Kissed me on the stairs
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Mama don't 'low me to whistle Papa don't 'low me to sing They don't want me to marry I'll marry just the same
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I wouldn't have a lawyer I'll tell you the reason why Every time he opens his mouth He tells a great big lie
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I wouldn't have a doctor I'll tell you the reason why He rides all over the country Makes the people die
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I wouldn't have a farmer I'll tell you the reason why Because he has so plenty to eat Specially pumpkin pie
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I took my girl to church last night How do you reckon she done She walked right up to the preacher's face And chewed her chewing gum
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CHURCH IN THE WILDWOOD
There's a church in the valley in the wildwood No lovelier place in the dell No spot is so dear to my childhood As the little brown church in the dell
[bass] Oh, come, come, come, come
[all] Come to the church in the wildwood
Oh, come to the church in the dell
No spot is so dear to my childhood
As the little brown church in the dell
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How sweet on a clear sabbath morning To listen to the clear ringing bells Its gongs so sweetly are calling Oh, come to the church in the dell
[bass] Oh, come, come, come, come
[all] Come to the church in the wildwood
Oh, come to the church in the dell
No spot is so dear to my childhood
As the little brown church in the dell
There, close by the side of the loved one 'Neath the tree where the wildflowers bloom She sleeps, sweet love sleeps 'neath the willow Disturb not her rest in the tomb
[bass] Oh, come, come, come, come
[all] Come to the church in the wildwood
Oh, come to the church in the dell
No spot is so dear to my childhood
As the little brown church in the dell
[bass] Oh, come, come, come, come
[all] Come to the church in the wildwood
Oh, come to the church in the dell
No spot is so dear to my childhood
As the little brown church in the dell
COAL MINER'S BLUES
Some blues are just blues Mine are the miner's blues Some blues are just blues Mine are the miner's blues My troubles are coming By threes and by twos
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Blues and more blues It's a coal black blues Blues and more blues It's a coal black blues Got coal in my hair Got coal in my shoes
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These blues are soul blue They are the coal black blues These blues are soul blue They are the coal black blues For my place will cave in And my life I will lose
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You say they are blues These old miner's blues You say they are blues These old miner's blues Now I must have sharpened These picks that I use
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I'm out with these blues Dirty coal black blues I'm out with these blues Dirty coal black blues We'll lay off tomorrow With the coal miner's blues
COWBOY JACK
He was just a lonely cowboy With a heart so brave and true He learned to love a maiden With eyes of heaven's own blue
They learned to love each other And named their wedding day When a quarrel came between them And Jack, he rode away
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He joined a band of cowboys And tried to forget her name But out on the lonely pa-rairie She waits for him the same
One night when work was finished Just at the close of day Someone said, sing a song, Jack We'll drive those cares away
When Jack began his singing His mind did wander back For he sang of a maiden Who waited for her Jack
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When he reached the prairie He found a new-made mound His friends they sadly told him They laid his loved one down
They said as she was dying She breathed her sweetheart's name And asked them with her last breath To tell him when he came
Your sweetheart waits for you, Jack Your sweetheart waits for you Out on the lonely pa-rairie Where the skies are always blue
COWBOY'S WILD SONG TO HIS HERD
One beautiful night when the moon was full And the air was crisp and clear A cowboy lay on the starlit plain And thought of his home so dear
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He thought of his mother he loved so well And the slumber of sleep was buried Not a sound to be heard but those of the night As he sang a wild song to his herd
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The cattle are lying so quiet and still On the carpet that mantles the west While the golden links from the sky at night Brings peace to the cowboy's breast
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Still he thinks of his mother in a faraway land And his thoughts by memory was stirred And he sees himself to the old home again As he sings a wild song to his herd
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He's far from the din of the city noise Where the links of folly do shine He's far from the brawls of the dives of sin And the flow of the sparkling wine
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He's in the great west with its mantle of green Where his neighbors say never a word A land of mirages, mountains and plains Where the cowboy sings low to his herd
THE CUBAN SOLDIER
Far away in a Spanish dungeon A Cuban soldier lay Slowly dying from the torture Inflicted day by day
He begged to send a message But his kindness was denied So he called his comrades to him And told his story 'ere he died
When Cuba gains her freedom
And the Spaniards cease to reign
There's a loved one on that island
I will never see again
Oh, find her for me, comrades
And tell her you were by my side
And I bid you take this message
To a soldier's promised bride
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'Tis the same old story, comrades Love weeps when duty is done When Cuba was struggling for her freedom I was ordered to my gun
Though I'm a captain dying The struggle will soon be o'er Tell her I said to meet me Where the soldiers fight no more
When Cuba gains her freedom
And the Spaniards cease to reign
There's a loved one on that island
I will never see again
Oh, find her for me, comrades
And tell her you were by my side
And I bid you take this message
To a soldier's promised bride
THE CYCLONE OF RYE COVE
Oh, listen today and a story I'll tell In sadness and tear-dimmed eyes Of a dreadful cyclone that came this way And blew our schoolhouse away
Rye Cove (Rye Cove) 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's so silent and lone
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When the cyclone appeared it darkened the air Yes, the lightning flashed over the sky The children all cried, don't take us away And spare us to go back home
Rye Cove (Rye Cove) 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's so silent and lone
There were mothers so dear and fathers the same That came to this horrible scene Searching and crying each found their own child Dying on a pillow of stone
Rye Cove (Rye Cove) 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's so silent and lone
Oh, give us a home far beyond the blue sky Where storms and cyclones are unknown There by life's strand we'll clasp this glad hand With children in a heavenly home
Rye Cove (Rye Cove) 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's so silent and lone