[Alice Gerrard] Hot summer night in the Beaufort County Jail Beaufort County Jail Locked her up, jailer kept the key Jailer kept the key He did, he kept the key Black woman in a white man's jail Black woman in a white man's jail No one to call a friend Jailer watched that woman by daylight Woman by daylight No mercy in a white man's jail Jailer-man...Learn More

[Chorus: Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard] Well, you're back on my doorstep a-crying Like I cried for all those lonely years But I can't dry your tears, it's been too long since love was here And I've already gave you my better years [Verse 1: Hazel Dickens & (Alice Gerrard)] And so, the pages of time kept right on turning (oh, yes they did) They...Learn More

[Chorus: Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard] West Virginia, oh, my home West Virginia's where I belong In the dead of the night, in the still and the quiet I slip away like a bird in flight Back to those hills, the place that I call home [Verse 1: Hazel Dickens] It's been years now since I left there And this city life's about got the best of me I...Learn More

[Verse 1] I'm goin' around this world, baby, mine Goin' around this world, baby, mine Goin' around this world, I'm a banjo pickin' girl I'm goin' around this world, baby, mine [Verse 2] I'm goin' Tennessee, baby, mine Goin' Tennessee, baby, mine Goin' Tennessee, don't you try and follow me Goin' Tennessee, baby, mine [Verse 3] If you ain't got no...Learn More

[Verse 1: Alice Gerrard] We used to be a family in our little cabin home Whose windows, they are broken and whose chimney's dark and cold But jobs were hard to find back then, it wasn't easy to survive So, one by one, we all left home to change our way of life [Verse 2: Alice Gerrard] I got a job in a factory on that old assembly line Gonna climb...Learn More

[Verse 1] Lost like a grain of sand upon the sands of time Trusting and believing in a love I thought was mine Tossed just like a ship by the waves of a storm Find myself alone, but tomorrow I'll be gone [Chorus] I'll be gone When you're blinded, I'll have opened wide to see You're a loser in this game of love you played so carelessly When you...Learn More

[Verse 1: Alice Gerrard] In the early morning light I creep on down the stairs Hush you, floor, keep your squeakin' down And the smell of good, hot coffee And the silence all around And nothing but my thoughts And the stirring of the sun To break the sad-sweet feeling Lord, of being all alone [Verse 2: Alice Gerrard] And if I'm very still, I can...Learn More

[Verse 1: Hazel Dickens] You pull the string, she's your plaything You can make her or break her, it's true You abuse her, accuse her, turn around and use her Then forsake her anytime it suits you [Chorus: Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard] Well, there's more to her than powder and paint Than her peroxided, bleached-out hair Well, if she acts that...Learn More

[Chorus: Alice Gerrard & Hazel Dickens] The green rolling hills of West Virginia Are the nearest thing to heaven that I know Though the times are sad and drear And I cannot linger here They'll keep me and never let me go [Verse 1: Alice Gerrard with Hazel Dickens] My daddy said, "Don't ever be a miner For a miner's grave is all you'll ever...Learn More

Times ain't now nothing like they used to be Oh, times ain't now nothing like they used to be Well, I'm tellin' you all the truth, oh take it from me I've seen better days, ain't a-puttin' up with these I've seen better days, ain't a-puttin' up with these Could have a much better time If men weren't so hard to please 'Cause I was borned in the...Learn More

[Verse 1: Alice Gerrard & Hazel Dickens] Once I had a daddy and he worked down in a hole Once I had a daddy and he worked down in a hole Diggin' and a-haulin', haulin' that Birmingham Coal [Verse 2: Alice Gerrard & Hazel Dickens] Many times, I wondered, when they took my daddy down Many times, I wondered, when they took my daddy down Will he come...Learn More

[Verse 1: Hazel Dickens with Alice Gerrard] He was just a Boston blue-eyed boy His voice was low with pain "I'll do your bidding, comrade mine If I ride back again" But if you ride back and I am dead You'll do as much for me My mother, you know, must hear the news So write to her tenderly She's praying at home like a waiting saint Her fond face...Learn More