There's a black cloud hanging over my head Down to my last buck With that old black cloud hanging over my head There ain't no such thing as good luck
Well in eighteen-fourteen we took a little trip Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississipp' We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
In the twilight glow I see her blue eyes crying in the rain As we kissed goodbye and parted I knew we'd never meet again Love is like a dying ember only
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine Air of salvation, purchase of God Born of his spirit, washed in his blood. This
It's been a blue blue day I feel like running away I feel like running away from it all My love has been untrue she's found somebody new It's been a
Born to lose I've lived my life in vain Every dream has only brought me pain All my life I've always been so blue Born to lose and now I'm losing you
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man Yes and how many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand How many times
I'm sending you a big boquet of roses One for every time you broke my heart And as the door of love between us closes Tears will fall like petals when
By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be rising She'll find the note I left hanging on her door She'll laugh when she reads the part that says I'm leaving
When I was but a youngster Christmas meant one thing That I'd be getting lots of toys that day I learned a whole lot different when mother set me down
So it's rainin' again and the wind's up in a roar I've been swept through the streets to be washed up at your door But you're with him I know so I'll
You're just too good to be true can't take my eyes off of you You'd be like heaven to touch I wanna hold you so much And long last love has arrived and
Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning No one could be sweeter than my sweetie when I meet her in the morning Where the morning
Carolyn let me tell you what I've heard about a man today He didn't come home from work and he went away Till he came to a city bright in the night time
Carry me back to old Virginy There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime There's where
You know that after the laughter comes the tears That's what happens when your memory appears I try to act real happy since you said goodbye But sometimes
Oh carry me back to the lone prairie Where the coyotes howl and the wind blows free And when I die you can bury me Neath the western skies on the lone
Come all you rounders if you wanna hear The story bout a brave engineer Casey Jones was the rounder's name On a 68 wheeler boys he won his fame The caller