East Virginia Blues Lyrics

They stood in the moonlight beside the gate Goodbye my darling I know you'll wait He sees her weeping and smile through her tears Saying I've been true love through these long year...Read Full Lyrics

An old Jane about 49 came in to view the town She registered up at Smith's Hotel as Miss Ada Brown She said she was just 25 and that she was in love With a young lad about 16, s...Read Full Lyrics

This world is not my home, I'm just a-passing through My treasures and my hopes are all beyond the blue; Where many Christian children have gone on before, And I can't feel at home...Read Full Lyrics

One morning as I rambled all down the seashore The wind it did whistle and the waters did roar I heard a fair damsel make a pitiful sound It sounded so lonesome in the waters ar...Read Full Lyrics

John Hardy was a desperate little man He carried two guns every day He shot down a man on that West Virginia line You ought a seen John Hardy getting away You ought to seen Joh...Read Full Lyrics

Well there's a dark and a troubled side of life. There's a bright and a sunny side too. But if you meet with the darkness and strife, The sunny side we also may view. Keep on...Read Full Lyrics

There is a precious volume of pages worn and old In that little log cabin by the sea It is the old old bible more precious now than gold It's the bible that my mother gave to me T...Read Full Lyrics

Single girl, single girl She's going dressed so fine Oh, she's going dressed so fine Married girl, married girl She wears just any kind Oh, she wears just any kind Single g...Read Full Lyrics

Motherless children sees a hard time when their mother is dead Motherless children sees a hard time when their mother is dead They are driven out in the cold, God knows where to ...Read Full Lyrics

Far away on a hill to sunny mountain side Many years ago we parted, my little Ruth and I From the sunny mountain side She clung to me and trembled when I told her we must part...Read Full Lyrics