It makes no difference where I wander. No matter what I say or do. I can't out bear this memory of you. And I'll cry dear when I think of you. . Somehow you wouldn't let me love you.
Oh how I once longed for your loving. Your cheating I couldn't realize. But now that I've found out you're stepping. I'm through with you baby I've got wise.
I hear a choo choo coming. It's coming down the track. It's taking away my darling. Never to bring her back. . My darling left me this morning. She left me feeling so blue.
I don't want your rambling letters. Don't want your picture in a frame. All I want is you in person. Won't you let me change your name. . Mama said you'd come home soon.
Kiss me mother kiss your darling. Lay my head upon your breast. Fold your loving arms around me. I am weary let me rest. . Through the years you've always loved me.
Oh, I am the Man, Thomas, I am the Man. Look at these nail scars here in my hands. . They pierced me in the side, Thomas, I am the Man. They made me bear the cross, Thomas, I am the Man.
Get down boys, go back home. Back to the girl you love. Treat her right, never wrong. How mountain girls can love. . Riding the night in the high cold winds.
Oh lord have mercy on this weary soul of mine. May I walk in your light everyday. And when I've crossed that deep silent river. I'll be happy in that home far away.
In the beautiful hills, in the midst of Roane Country. There's where I roamed for many long years. There's where my heart's been tending most ever. That's where the first step of misfortune I made.
I saw you last night in my dreams, love. I awoke as the clock was strikin' four. But I didn't think that I'd meet you. And now as you walk through the door.
Thinking of you while out for a ramble. Down by a cold frosty stream. Set down on a bed of hemlocks and primroses. And gently I fell into a dream. . I dreamed I saw a pretty fair maiden.
Down in the valley while on my knees. I asked my Jesus, carry me please. He promised that hed take care of me. If I would lift him up. . He said if I (he said if I).
Have you someone in Heaven awaiting?. Expecting you on that beautiful shore. Be ready to join that great band of angels. When they welcome you into that Heavenly door.
There's coming a time on the great judgement morning. When the Savior will welcome you home. Will you be prepared for the journey to heaven. On the great ship that carries God's chosen ones home.
Well I wish that I was in London. Or some other seaport town. Step my foot in a steamboat. And sail the ocean round. . Sailing round the ocean. Sailing round the sea.
Troubles and trials often betray those. Causing the weary body to stray. But we shall walk beside the still water. With the good shepherd leading the way.
Death is an angel sent down from above. Sent for the buds and the flowers we love. Truly it is so, for in heaven's own way. Each soul is a flower in the Master's bouquet.
I left my old home to ramble this country. My mother and dad said, "Son don't go wrong. Remember that God will always watch over you. And we will be waiting for you here at home".
I was born in East Virginia. North Carolina I did go. There I courted a fair young maiden. But her age I did not know. . Oh her hair was dark and curly.
It was on one dark and starless night. I heard and saw an awful sight. The lighting flashed and the thunder roared. All around the drunkard's feet. . I started home to change my life.