Black Betty Lyrics

Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm I am the black crow king Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm I am the black crow king Keeper of the nodding corn Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! All the hammers are a-talking All the nails are...Read Full Lyrics

Last night my kisses were banked in black hair And in my bed, my lover, her hair was midnight black And all her mystery dwelled within her black hair And her black hair framed a ha...Read Full Lyrics

Bline Lemon Jefferson is a-coming. Tap tap tappin with his cane. Bline Lemon Jefferson is a-coming. Tap tap tappin with his cane. His last ditch lies down the road of trials Half f...Read Full Lyrics

Bless his ever loving heart Only he knows who you are He may seem so very far Bless his ever loving heart And when you're feeling sad And everywhere you look you can't believe the...Read Full Lyrics

It's up in the morning and on the downs Little white clouds like gambolling lambs And I am breathless over you And the red-breasted robin beats his wings His throat it trembles whe...Read Full Lyrics

Blue Bird I got a blue bird, a blue bird on my shoulder I got a blue bird, a blue bird on my shoulder I saw her standing, standing by the water She was naked, her hair in great di...Read Full Lyrics

The bright horses have broken free from the fields They are horses of love, their manes full of fire They are parting the cities, those bright burning horses And everyon...Read Full Lyrics

This garden that I built for you That you sit in now and yearn I will never leave it, dear I could not bear to return And find it all untended With the trees all bended low This ga...Read Full Lyrics

Up those stone steps I climb Hail this joyful day's return Into it's great shadowed vault I go Hail the pentecostal morn The reading is from luke 24 Where christ returns to his lo...Read Full Lyrics

Brother, my cup is empty And I haven't got a penny For to buy no more whiskey I have to go home I am the captain of my pain Tis the bit, the bridle, The trashing cane The stirrup,...Read Full Lyrics