FOLK SONGS OLD AND NEW
(Mercury SR-60770)
December/1962
Produced by Shelby S. Singleton
Recorded:
Oct 22-24/1962, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville
1.
RING OF FIRE
(Merle Kilgore - June Carter)
« © '62 Painted Desert Music, BMI »
Love is a burning thing and it makes a fiery ring
Bringing me the wild desire I fell into a ring of fire
I fell into into the burning ring of fire
I fell down down down down into the deepest fire
And it burns burns burns burns the ring of fire the ring of fire
The ring of fire
The taste of love is sweet when two very hearts meet
I believe you like a child oh but the fire went wild
I fell into into the burning ring of fire...
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2.
ALL MY TRIALS
(arr. Anita Carter)
« © '60 MRC Music, PD »
Hush little baby don't you cry
You know your mama was born to die
All my trials soon be over
The river of Jordan is muddy and cold
It chills the body but not the soul
All my trials soon be over
Too late my brothers too late but never mind
All my trials soon be over
There grows a tree in paradise
The good folk call it the tree of life
All my trials soon be over
If religion were a thing that money could buy
The rich would live but the poor would die
All my trials soon be over
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3.
SOUR GRAPES
(Merle Kilgore - Joe Allison)
« © '63 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
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4.
FAIR AND TENDER LADIES
(Maybelle Carter)
« © '60 Painted Desert Music, BMI »
Come all ye fair and tender ladies
Take warning how you court young men
They're like a star on a summer morning
They first appear and then they're gone
They'll tell to you some loving story
And make you think that they love you so well
Then away they'll go and court some other
And leave you there in grief to dwell
[ ac.guitar ]
I wish I was on some tall mountain
Where the ivy rock is black as ink
I'd write a letter to my own true lover
Whose cheeks are like the morning pink
Oh love is fair love is charming
And love is pretty while it's new
But love grows cold as love grows older
And fades away like morning dew
And fades away like morning dew
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5.
MY LOVE
(Zeb Turner)
« © '63 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
My love is new new as the spring green leaves
My love is old as the rolling sea
My love is strong strong as a mighty man
Yet my love is tender as a baby's hand
My love is many things I can't explain
I could hate you forget you then love you again
My love is warm as sunshine after rain
But love grows cold if it lives in vain
[ autoharph ]
My love is warm as sunshine after rain
But love grows cold if it lives in vain
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6.
VOICE OF THE BAYOUS
(Bob Johnson)
« © '63 Painted Desert Music, BMI »
Down in the swamp they're gathering tonight
Voodoo boats in the pale moonlight
Um-a-pa palesu-va um-a-pa palesu-va um-a-pa palesu-va
Voice of the bayous voice of the bayous
Voodoo queen's a waitin' waitin' all alone
Waitin' on my man to claim him on her throne
Um-a-pa palesu-va...
Voodoo queen is tryin' tryin' for my man
Made herself a potion gonna get him if she can
Um-a-pa palesu-va...
But I make myself a dart and stick it full of pins
And when the moon is dark as blood her troubles will begin
Um-a-pa palesu-va...
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7.
FLY PRETTY SWALLOW
(M.L. Davidson)
« © '63 Ensign Music, BMI »
A young man was he and he sailed on the sea
But a longin' came in to his heart
He breathed a great sigh for he must say goodbye
To the seaport this message he'd send
Fly pretty swallow fly to the seashore
Back to the one who's waiting for me
Tell her I'm coming back to the seashore
Back from the sea for she's anchored my heart
[ ac.guitar ]
Now an old man is he and he sail every sea
For his young bride she died long ago
With his life at its end and the sea is only friend
Once more this message he sent
Fly pretty swallow fly to the seashore
Back to the cabin that I built for my bride
That's where she's sleeping there by the seashore
There by the sea where we'll anchor our hearts
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8.
JOHNNY I HARDLY KNEW YOU
(arr. Anita Carter)
« © '63 MRC Music, PD »
With guns and drums and drums and guns hurroo hurroo
With guns and drums and drums and guns hurroo hurroo
With guns and drums and drums and guns the enemy nearly slew ya
Oh Johnny darling you look bad Johnny I hardly knew ya
Where are your eyes that were so mild hurroo hurroo
Where are your eyes that were so mild hurroo hurroo
Where are your eyes that were so mild when my heart you first beguiled
Why did you run from me and the child Johnny I hardly knew ya
It's glad I am to see ya home hurroo hurroo
It's glad I am to see ya home hurroo hurroo
Glad I am to see ya home back from the island of Sulloon
So low in flesh so high in bone Johnny I hardly knew ya
Where are your legs that used to run hurroo hurroo
Where are your legs that used to run hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs that used to run when first you went to carry a gun
You know your dancing days are done Johnny I hardly knew ya
You haven't an arm you haven't a leg hurroo hurroo
You haven't an arm you haven't a leg hurroo hurroo
You haven't an arm you haven't a leg
You're a hopeless boneless chickenless egg
And you'll have to put with your bowl to beg
Johnny I hardly knew ya
They're rolling out the guns again hurroo hurroo
They're rolling out the guns again hurroo hurroo
They're rolling out the guns again but they'll never take my sons again
No they never will take my sons again Johnny I'm swearing to ya
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9.
AS THE SPARROW GOES
(Merle Kilgore - June Carter)
« © '63 Painted Desert Music, BMI »
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10.
SATAN'S CHILD
(Danny Dill - Helen Carter)
« © '63 Cedarlane Music, BMI »
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11.
FEW SHORT YEARS AGO
(Harlan Howard)
« © '63 Tree Publishing, BMI »
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12.
KENTUCKIAN SONG
(Irving Gordon)
« © '60 Bourne Co, ASCAP »
I see my darling in each spray of summer sunlight
I see my darling in the leaves that fall
I see him walking in the rainy April showers
And hear his name in every bluebird call
I told the possum at the guntree the rackoon on the ground
Told everyone bout my darling of the happiness I found
My heart would cry more than the weeping willow tree
If my darling and his heart were not for me
My heart would cry more...
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13.
BRIAN
(Howard Greenfield - Jack Keller)
« © '63 Careers Music, BMI »
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14.
RUNNING BACK
(Francis Zambon)
« © '63 Peer International, BMI »
Running back running back running back running back
You come a running back running back to me
You broke my heart and you set me free
And you forgot about memoris
You left me here sittin' all alone
One day soon you're gonna come back home
Yes one of these days you come running back running back
Darling say that you want me back want me back to see
Running back running back...
You broke my heart and left me alone
Left me here just crying at home
You left me and without a doubt of me
One day soon you'll come back to see
Yes one of these days you come...
Running back running back...
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