Hand Me Down My Walking Cane

Hand Me Down My Walking Cane

Chorus:
Hand me down my walking cane,
Hand me down my walking cane.
Hand me down my walking cane,
I’m gonna leave on the midnight train,
All my sins are taken away, taken away.

I got drunk and landed in jail,
I got drunk and landed in jail.
I got drunk and landed in jail,
Had no one for to go my bail,
All my sins are taken away, taken away. (Chorus)

If I should die in Tennessee,
If I should die in Tennessee.
If I should die in Tennessee,
Send my bones back

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Ground Hog

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Ground Hog

Shoulder up your gun and whistle up your dog
Shoulder up your gun and whistle up your dog
Off to the woods to catch a ground hog
Oh, ground hog.

In come Sal with a snigger and a grin
In come Sal with a snigger and a grin
With ground hog grease all over her chin
Oh, ground hog.

In come grandma hopping on a cane
In come grandma hopping on a cane
I’m gonna have that ground hog’s brains
Oh, ground hog.

Ground hog stewed and ground hog fried
Ground hog stewed and ground hog fried
It’s

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Footprints in the Snow Lyrics

Footprints in the Snow

Some folks like the summertime when they can walk about,
Strolling through the meadow green, it’s pleasant there’s no doubt,
But give me the wintertime when the snow is on the ground,
For I found her when the snow was on the ground.

Chorus:
I traced her little footprints in the snow,
I found her little footprints in the snow,
I bless that happy day, that Nelly lost her way,
For I found her when the snow was on the ground.

I dropped in to see her, there was a big round moon,
Her mother said

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East Virginia

East Virginia

I was born in East Virginia
North Carolina I did go
There I met a fair pretty maiden
And her name I did not know.

Oh her hair was dark and curly
And her lips were ruby red
On her breast she wore white lilies
Where I longed to lay my head.

I don’t want your greenback dollar
I don’t want your watch and chain
All I want is your heart darling,
Say you’ll take me back again.

The ocean’s deep and I can’t wade it,
And I have no wings to fly
I’ll just get me a

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Down in the Willow Gardens

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Down in the Willow Gardens

Down in the willow gardens
Where me and my love did meet;
There we sat a-courting
My love dropped off to sleep.

I had a bottle of burglar’s wine
That my true love did not know.
And there I poisoned my own true love
Down under the banks below.

I drew my saber through her
Which was a bloody knife.
I threw her in the river,
Which was a dreadful sight.

My father always taught me
That money would set me free.
If I would murder that pretty little miss
Whose name was Rose Connally.

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Deep Elem Blues

Deep Elem Blues

When you go down in Deep Elem,
Just to have a little fun.
Better have fifteen dollars,
When the policeman comes.

Chorus:
And it’s oh sweet mama,
Daddy’s got them Deep Elem blues.
Oh,  sweet mama,
Daddy’s got them Deep Elem blues.

When you go down in Deep Elem,
Put your money in your pants.
Those Deep Elem women,
They don’t give a man a chance. (Chorus)

When you go down to Deep Elem,
Put your money in your socks.
Them Deep Elem women,
They will throw you on the rocks. (Chorus)

I used to know a

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Darling Cory

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Darling Cory

Wake up, wake up, darlin’ Cory,
What makes you sleep so sound
When the revenours are comin’
Goin’ to tear your still house down?

Dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadow
Dig a hole in the cold, cold ground
Go and dig you a hole in the meadow
Gonna lay darlin’ Cory down.

Go away, go away, darlin’ Cory
Stop hangin’ around my bed
Bad liquor destroyed my body,
Pretty women’s gone to my head.

Don’t you hear them bluebirds a-singing’?
Don’t you hear their mournful sound?
They are preachin’ Cory’s funeral
In some lonesome graveyard

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Dark Hollow

Dark Hollow

I’d rather be in some dark hollow,
Where the sun don’t ever shine.
Than to be all alone and knowin’ that you’re gone,
It would cause me to lose my mind.

Chorus:
So blow your whistle freight train,
Take me far on down the track.
I’m goin’ away, I’m leaving today,
I’m goin’ but I ain’t comin’ back.

I’d rather be in some dark hollow
Where the sun don’t ever shine.
Than to be in some big city,
In a small room with her on my mind. (Chorus)

Instruction on how to play this song can be found

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Cumberland Mountain Deer Chase

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Cumberland Mountain Deer Chase

Away, away we’re bound for the mountain
Bound for the mountain, bound for the mountain
Over the mountain, the hills and the fountain
Away to the chase away.

Rover, Rover, see him, see him
Rover, Rover, catch him, catch him
Over the mountain, the hills and the fountain
Away to the chase away.

Now we’re getting right for the race
The hounds and the horses all in the pace
Over the mountain, the hills and the fountain
Away to the chase away.

All night long till the break of dawn
Merrily the chase goes on
Over

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Cumberland Gap

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Cumberland Gap

Lay down boys and take a little nap,
We’re all goin’ down to Cumberland Gap.

Lay down boys and take a little nap,
Snow knee-deep in Cumberland Gap.

Cumberland Gap’s a devil of a place;
Couldn’t find water to wash my face.

Me and my wife’s pap,
Walked all the way from Cumberland Gap.

Pretty little girl if you don’t care,
I’ll leave my demijohn a-sittin right there

If it ain’t there when I get back,
I’ll raise hell in Cumberland Gap.

Lay down boys and take a little rest,
We’ll all wake up in a whippoorwill’s nest.

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