Tar-heel Boy Lyrics - The Magnetic Fields

Tar-heel boy sings a song 

'Bout a girl who ain't comin' home 

By n by, by n by 

She worked too long in the mill 

She's gone to those rolling hills in the sky 

We're barely off mama's milk 

And we're locked in here weavin' silk 

We can't buy, we can't buy 

While you been off in Oregon 

I been drinkin' here all alone 

All night long, all day long 

They shot a nine-year-old boy 

For a hundred dollars