The foreman touched the cold steel lines The rail bed was frozen with ice In the distance an engine was keeping good time The steam whistle moaned just twice D...

Listen now children a story I'll tell Of a woman they called Anna Lee She had a fine son and she raised him up well And a daughter as lovely as she I'll return...

Well, they blew up the chicken man in philly last night Now, they blew up his house, too Down on the boardwalk they're gettin' ready for a fight Gonna see what ...

Every man will see the day That his hopes are dashed away No word can bring him peace No man can set him free Some will ramble far from home Work their fingers...

False hearts have been my downfall, pretty women have been my craze I know my false hearted lover she has sent me to my lonesome grave Baggy clothes dropping o...

Feelin' good, feelin' good All the money in the world spent on feelin' good A wino met me in the street He said, a^?Help me find some Sneakin' Pete Help me bro...

Oh, I got me a woman she's a pretty good woman at that We live with a monkey and a Chinese acrobat She calls me 'Tex', makes me wear a cowboy hat But I don't ca...

Life's a strain, painful thing To be overcome We mark the nights by our triumphs Suffers everyone But hold them near Keep them dear Don't be ashamed Triumphs ...

I wish I knew how it would feel to be free I wish I could break all the chains holding me I wish I could say all the things that I should say Say 'em loud, say ...

There's a hundred-thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans In New Orleans there are Frenchmen everywhere But your house could fall down Your baby could drown Wouldn't ...

Little birds are singing all around me, on every bush and vine, My pleasures would be doubled if I could call you mine As I've sat here the whole night through...

Oh the poor old dirt farmer, He's lost lost all his corn And now where's the money To pay off his loan? He lost all his corn Can't pay off his loan He lost all...

Well, the single girl, yeah, the single girl The single girl, she always dresses so fine She dresses so fine She always dresses so fine But the married girl, o...

You know the girl you love she don't treat you right sometimes You know the girl you love she don't treat you right sometimes Well, that's the stuff you gotta w...

Cold iron shackles And ball and chain Listen to the whistle Of the evenin' train You know you Bound to wind up dead If you don't head back To Tennessee Jed Ri...

Oh father tonight they say you are, To wed another bride, That you will hold her in your arms, Where my dear mother died They say her name is Mary too, The nam...

The hours sad I left a maid A lingering farewell taking Whose sighs and tears my steps delayed I thought her heart was breaking In hurried words her name I bles...

I was born on this mountain a long long time ago Before they knocked down the timber and stripped mined all the coal When you rose up in the morning before it w...

In the deep rolling hills of old Virginia, There's a place I love too well, Where I spent many days of my childhood, In the cabin where we loved so well [Choru...

There's a sorrow in the wind Blowing down the road I've been I can hear it cry while shadows steal the sun But I cannot look back now I've come too far to turn...

Had a sweet little girl, I lose my baby, boy ain't that bad Had a sweet little girl, I lose my baby, boy ain't that bad You can't spend what you ain't got, You ...