Taking those last steps, so weary and slow It leads to the gallows from there I don't know One step every minute each minute a year Oh, sorrow is bitter when no friends are near If I had one wish love and that could come true I'd wish I was pardoned and back home with you I'd get on my knees, love, ask you to forgive No more would I pain you as...Learn More

For twenty-one years, babe, the judge sentenced me To this dirty old prison, down in Tennessee You promised me, love, that you’d be true blue But you didn’t say when, love, or to whom you’d be true A year has done gone, babe, there’s twenty to go Oh, the days get so weary and the darn nights are slow I could have freedom if the governor said...Learn More

Are you weary, are you tired? Does everything seem all wrong? Are you weary and all blue? Want your heart to sing a song? Let’s go back to the Bible And walk in the pathway of right Let love be the heavenly searchlight To brighten the darkest night There’s hope and strength in the Bible The sweetest story told Let’s go back to the Bible To the...Learn More

I’m gonna go my way, gonna leave you behind Gonna find that sweet peace for my fevered mind No use to explainin’, ain’t no use to try Got that miserable feeling, I’m too blue to cry You’d raise me way up then you’d drop me down Lower than you’d know Then you’d lift me back up, just to let me down All the way down low Fair thee well my darlin’,...Learn More

Just gather round me and listen hear A sad, sad story you shall hear About our old bay mare that died last year Singin’ fa da riddle sing day This old bay mare was a greedy old soul She always ate more than she could hold Got fat and fatter and then she got old Singin’ fa da riddle sing day Out in the pasture clover knee deep The cows nor the...Learn More

Gonna rig myself up in a swaller-tail coat With a jingle in my pocket and a song in my throat Gonna hold my head high cause my baby’s reply Put a million billion rainbows in the sky. Dee-ee dum….. We’ll go honeymoonin’ in the mornin’ We’ll go honeymoonin’ in the evenin’ Gonna count the minutes to the dawnin’ Then I’ll sing loud cause I’ll...Learn More

I lingered down in sweetheart lane Hoping that I’ll find you there again Each bird it tweets in sympathy Seem to say that you’ll come back to me A hasty word or two Can’t mean that we are through You know you still love me And I love you I can’t believe it’s all in vain Waiting for you down in sweetheart lane A silly quarrel started and so we...Learn More

When the sun has gone to sleep so tired and weary ‘Round my heart an empty loneliness creeps in And I die a million times before the morning sunrise When I think of all the things that might have been Oh, there might have been a garden there filled with flowers Where sweet nature and the world are all akin Where contentment and where peace are...Learn More

Oh, girls, gather ‘round and hear my sad tale Of the man I once loved but I sent him to jail This man that I married had his mind in one track Gave him that precious thing that I'll never get back Seven Years with the wrong man is a long time to live Seven Years with the wrong man who could take but not give If I had my ruthers, girls, you’ll...Learn More

In my valley of beautiful memories That remain ever fresh as the dawn There’s a romance that lives in my memories Blooming on, though the fragrance is gone There’s sweet mellowness so refreshing Like the splendor of roses in spring Thru the dark silent night, like an eternal light Is my Valley of Memories There’s a wall that I build round my...Learn More

Oh! Beale St. you nearly saw a tragedy When sweet smellin’ Mama said farewell to me I protected but corrected all her faults each day That’s the reason she went away I’m so weary and so dreary, Oh how sad “Cause it’s drivin’ me mad She just packed her grip, took a long, long trip Just because I said….. Sweet…..Oh! Sweet Smellin’ Mama Poro is...Learn More

Swinging down the old Orchard Lane Listening to the mockingbird’s refrain Strollin’ sort of lazy, with thoughts that seem so hazy Between my toes a daisy, kissed by the softest rain Honeysuckle’s sweet filled the air Spreading real contentment everywhere A heart as light as moonbeams, a mind that’s filled with dreams Swinging down the Old Orchard...Learn More