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| 2:08 | 
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This train don't carry no gamblers, this train,
This train don't carry no gamblers, this train, This train don't carry no gamblers No crap shooters, no midnight ramblers, This train don't carry no gamblers, this train. Chorus: This train is bound for glory, this train, This train is bound for glory, this train, This train is bound for glory, Don't carry nothin' but the righteous an' the holy This train is bound for glory, this train. This train goes down the track, this train, This train goes down the track, this train, This train goes down the track, And once you're on board you don't come back This train goes down the track, this train (Chorus) This train don't pay no transportation, this train, This train don't pay no transportation, this train, This train don't pay no transportation No Jim Crow and no discrimination, This train don't pay no transportation, this train. (Chorus) |
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| 3. |
| 3:01 |
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Polly, pretty Polly, come go along with me
Polly, pretty Polly, come go along with me Before we get married some pleasure to see She got up behind him and away they did ride She got up behind him and away they did ride Over the hills and the valleys so wide They rode a little further and what did they spy They rode a little further and what did they spy But a new-dug grave with a spade lying by Oh Willy, oh Willy, I'm scared of your ways Oh Willy, oh Willy, I'm scared of your ways Scared you might lead my poor body astray Polly, pretty Polly, you've guessed just about right Polly, pretty Polly, you've guessed just about right I've dug on your grave the best part of last night And he stabbed her in the heart and the heart-blood did flow And he stabbed her in the heart and the heart-blood did flow Into her grave pretty Polly did go He threw a little dirt over her and started for home He threw a little dirt over her and started for home Leaving nothing behind but the wild birds to moan And it's debt to the devil, and Willy must pay And it's debt to the devil, and Willy must pay For killing pretty Polly and running away |
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| 3:24 |
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Wondering and waiting, my back agaist the wall
Not a word that passed between us comes to recall Just you shadow at the window as you pass on down the hall You never wanted me and never knew me at all I haven't any picture to set before my eyes Nothing I can blame when the blues start to rise Just the memory of laughter and a living out of lies But if I could change my ways we would never have said goodbye If you ever get the time, please think of me It's a lock that can't be broken and there isn't any key I'm only in your mind, only you can set me free You can't hurt me anymore and it isn't hard to see Someday, someone will leave you and I know you'll feel the same But you'll mark it down to memory and a dream that never came But they are no answers given when love is just a game And you never wanted me and now I feel the same |
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| 4:23 |
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Gold and silver is the autumn
Soft and gentle are her skies Yes I know, are the answers Written in my true love's eyes Autumn's leaving, winter's coming I think that I'll be moving on I've got to leave him and find another I've got to sing my heart's true song Round and round the burning circle All the seasons, one, two, and three Autumn leaves with the winter Spring is born and wanders free Gold and silver burnt my autumns All too soon they'd fade and die And then there were no others Milk and honey were their lives |
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| 3:45 |
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He was a man and a friend always
We rambled on in the bad old days. He never cared if I had no dough, He stuck with me in the rain and snow. Chorus: And here's to you, my ramblin' boy, May all your ramblin' bring you joy. Here's to you, my ramblin' boy, May all your ramblin' bring you joy. In Tulsa town we chanced to stray. We thought we try and work one day. The boss said he had room for one, Said my old pal, We'd rather bum. Late one night in a jungle camp The weather it was cold and damp. He got the chills and he got them bad, I lost the only friend I had. He left me here to ramble on, My ramblin' pal is dead and gone. When we die, we go somewhere, I'll bet you a dollar he'll be ramblin' there. |
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| 3:35 |
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It's a lesson too late for the learning
Made of sand, made of sand In the winking of an eye my soul is turning In your hand, in your hand. Chorus: Are you going away with no word of farewell? Will there be not a trace left behind? I could have loved you better Didn't mean to be unkind But you know that was the last thing on my mind. You had reasons plenty for going This I know, this I know. For the weeds have been steadily growing Please don't go, please don't go. (Chorus) As we walk, my thoughts are a-tumbling Round and round, round and round And the subway beneath my feet is a-rumbling Underground, underground (Chorus) As I lie in my bed in the morning Without you, without you. Every song in my breast dies a-borning Without you, without you. (Chorus) |
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| 3:21 |
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Make me a pallet on your floor
Make me a pallet on your floor Make it soft, make it low, so your woman don't know Make me a pallet on your floor. Come all you good time friends of mine, Come all you good time friends of mine. When I had ten dollars, you treated me so fine Where were you when I only had a dime. Come on and make me a pallet on your floor Make me a pallet on your floor Make it soft, make it low, so your woman don't know Make me a pallet on your floor. I'll be more than satisfied, If I could catch one train to ride But if I reach atlanta with no place to go, Please make me a pallet on your floor Make me a pallet on your floor Make me a pallet on your floor Make it soft, make it low, so your woman don't know Make me a pallet on your floor. I'm gonna make you a red-hot meal Gonna make you a red-hot meal To show you I appreciate all that you have done When you make me a pallet on your floor. Come on and make me a pallet on your floor Make me a pallet on your floor Make it soft, make it low, so your woman don't know Make me a pallet on your floor. |
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| 3:41 |
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I once loved a lass and I loved her so well
And I hated all others who spoke of her ill. And now she's rewarded me well for my love, For she's gone and she's wed another. And I saw my love up to the church go With bridesmen and bridesmaidens she made a fine show. And I followed on with my heart full of woe For she's gone and she's wed another. I saw my love as she sat down to dine. I sat down beside her and poured the wine. And I thought of the lassie that should have been mine, I thought her sweet company better than meat Now she's gone and she's wed another. All the men in yon forest they asked of me, How many strawberries grow in a salt sea? And I answer them with a tear in my e'e, How many ships sail in the forest? Oh dig me a grave and dig it sae deep, And cover it over with wee flowers sae sweet. And I lay me down for to take a long sleep And maybe in time I'll forget her. So they dug him a grave and they dug it sae deep And they covered it over with wee flowers sae sweet And he lay him down for to take a long sleep And maybe in time he'll forget her. |
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| 3:43 |
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I've been on the road, so long
Been tired and broke, so long I've been to the south where the winds they were warm Travelling the road of no return, so long I've seen what was war, so long The ruins and the scars, so long The mansions of mud, the wounds and the blood Seen the dying of all that was good, so long. Seen the world in the shadow, so long Is its mushrooming cloud, so long And the lies and the greed of the leaders of men Those cheats who would take us to war again, so long. Yet hope is in me, so long For it's love that I see, so long The courage and strenght of the young men's smile The faith that's in a little child, so long I've travelled this road, so long Have been tired and broke, so long I've been to the south where the winds they were warm Travelling the road of no return, so long |
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