lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

NINE POUND HAMMER

(Merle Travis)
« © '47 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Well this nine pound hammer is a little too heavy
For my size honey for my size
I'm goin' on the mountain gonna see my baby
And I ain't comin' back Lord I ain't comin' back

Oh roll on buddy don't you roll so slow how can I go when my wheels won't roll
Roll on buddy pull a load o'coal how can I go when my wheels won't roll
[ banjo ] Well it's a long way to Harlem it's a long way to Hazzard
Just to get a little brew just to get a little brew
Now when I'm long gone you can make my tombstone
Out of number nine coal out of number nine coal

Roll on buddy...
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2.

LORENA

(Charlie Williams)
« © '59 Central Songs, BMI »
The years creep slowly by Lorena snow is on the grass again
The sun is sinking low Lorena frost is where the flowers have been

The music's sad and low Lorena happy sounds have left today
The banjos softly play Lorena where once they rang so loud and gay

I hardly feel the cold Lorena I pray this darkness soon will pass
We'll sing those songs again Lorena you'll be in my arms at last
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3.

LONG BLACK VEIL

(Marijohn Wilkin - Danny Dill)
« © '59 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
Someone was killed neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene but they all agreed
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me

She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows nobody sees nobody knows but me
[ harmonica ] The judge said son what is your alibi
If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die
I spoke not a word though it meant my life
For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife

Now the scaffold is high and eternity's near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
In a long black veil she cries o'er my bones

She walks these hills...
Nobody knows nobody sees nobody knows but me
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4.

WHEN PAPA PLAYED THE DOBRO

(Johnny Cash)
« © '60 House Of Cash, BMI »
My papa was a hobo when they delivered me
We didn't have a doctor cause he couldn't pay the fee
But when the goin' got too bad to ease his misery
Papa played the dobro this a way and he'd go
[ dobro ] When company would come around he kept the dobro hid
He knew he couldn't play the way the other players did
Why the guitar's resonator was a gallon bucket lid
But papa played the dobro this a way and he'd go
[ dobro ] Well now that papa's gone away it's hanging by the flue
The top of it's rusted and the strings're rusty too
It won't ever sound the way that it did when it was new
When papa played the dobro this a way and he'd go
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5.

I STILL MISS SOMEONE

(Johnny Cash - Ray Cash Jr)
« © '58 House Of Cash, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
At my door the leaves are falling a cold wild wind will come
Sweethearts walk by together and I still miss someone

Although I never got over those blue eyes I see them everywehere
I miss those arms that held me when all of the love was there
I wonder if she's sorry for leaving what we'd begun
There's someone for me somewhere and I still miss someone
[ dobro ] Although I never got over...
I still miss someone
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6.

BAD NEWS

(John D. Loudermilk)
« © '63 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Ha ha ha come on bad news ha ha
Well bad news travels like wild fire goodnews travels slow
They all call me Wildfire ha ha cause everybody knows
I'm bad news everywhere I go
Always gettin' in a trouble and leaving little girls that hate to see me go

They tried to hang me in Oakland and the did in Francisco
But I wouldn't choke I broke their rope and they had to let me go
Cause I'm bad news everywhere I go
Always gettin' in a trouble and leaving little girls that hate to see me go

Now from north to south east to west the story is the same
From one state to another I have to change my name
Cause I'm bad news everywhere I go
Always gettin' in a trouble and leaving little girls that hate to see me go
[ dobro ] Well now I've picked peaches in Georgia I lumberjacked in Maine
I've been hired fired and jailed in any town you can name
Cause I'm bad news everywhere I go
Always gettin' in a trouble and leaving little girls that hate to see me go
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7.

STREETS OF LAREDO

(arr. Johnny Cash)
« © '56 House Of Cash, BMI »
As I walked out on the streets of Laredo
As I walked out on Laredo one day
I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen
All wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay

Beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly
Play the dead march as you carry me along
Take me to the green valley lay the sod o'er me
For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong

Then go write a letter and send it to my grey haired mother
And please send the same to my sister so dear
But please not one word of all this would you mention
When other should ask for my story to hear

There is another more dear than a sister
She'll bitterly weep when she hears that I'm gone
And if some other man every wins her affection
Don't mention my name and my name will pass on

Just beat the drum slowly...

Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin
Get six pretty maidens to sing me a song
Put bunches of roses all over my coffin
Roses to deaden the clods when they fall

We beat the drum slowly played the fife lowly
We bitterly wept as we bore him along
Down in the green valley we laid this sod o'er him
Just the young cowboy who surely gone wrong
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8.

DON'T THINK TWICE IT'S ALL RIGHT

(Bob Dylan)
« © '63 Special Rider Music, SESAC »
Well there ain't no use to sit and wonder why baby if you don't know by now
And there ain't no use to sit and wonder why baby it'll never do anyhow
When your rooster's a crowin' at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason why I'm travelin' on but don't think twice it's all right

And there ain't no use in turnin' on your light babe the light I'll never know
And there ain't no use in turnin' on your light babe I'm on the dark side of the road
But I wish there was somethin' I could do or say
To try and make it change your mind and stay
We never did too much talkin' anyway but don't think twice it's all right

Well it ain't no use in callin' out my name gal like you never done before
It ain't no use in callin' out my name gal I can't hear you anymore
I'm a thinkin' and a wonderin' walkin' down the road
I've once loved a woman a child I'm told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul but don't think twice it's all right

So long honey babe where I'm bound I cannot tell
But goodbye's too good a word gal so I just kinda say fare thee well
Now I'm not sayin' that you treated me unkind
You could've done a lot better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time but don't think twice it's all right
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9.

FRANKIE'S MAN JOHNNY

(Johnny Cash)
« © '58 House Of Cash, BMI »
Well now Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts
They were true as a blue blue sky
He was a long-legged guitar picker with a wicked wanderin' eye
But he was her man nearly all of the time
Well Johnny he packed up to leave her but he promised he'd be back
He said he had a little pickin' to do a little farther down the track
He said I'm your man I wouldn't do you wrong
Well Frankie curled up on the sofa thinkin' about her man
Far away the couples were dancing to the music of his band
He was Frankie's man he wadn't doin' her wrong
Then in the front door walked a redhead Johnny saw her right away
She came down by the bandstand to watch him while he played
He was Frankie's man but she was far away
He sang every song to the redhead she smiled back at him
Then he came and sat at her table where the lights were low and dim
What Frankie didn't know wouldn't hurt her none
Then the redhead jumped up and slapped him she slapped him a time or two
She said I'm Frankie's sister and I was checking up on you
If you're her man you better treat her right
Well the moral of this story is be good but carry a stick
Sometimes it looks like a guitar picker just can't tell what to pick
He was Frankie's man and he still ain't done her wrong
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