Carter Family songs lyrics

You've got to righten that wrong someday Years may pass but you cant get away If you do wrong today the price you must pay You've got to righten...

'Tis true the rainbow has no end It's hard to find a faithful friend And when you find one just and true Change not the old one for the new Bring...

Come back to me in my dreaming Come back to me once more Come with the love light beaming Like in the days of yore I wonder if you still love me And...

Oh yes I'm going back to my home in Tennessee Back to the girl that's waiting in the cotton fields to see There's a mother and a dad that's waiting...

There will be no more sorrow on that heavenly shore There'll be no wolfs a howlin near the old cabin door We will all be quite wealthy and there'll...

Goodbye to the pals of the prairie Goodbye to the pals of the plains Goodbye to the dash and the danger Goodbye to the heartaches and pains Goodbye...

Way down upon the old plantation Old Massey used to own me as a slave He had a yeller gal he called Lorena And we courted where the wild bananas...

Oh listen to the train coming down the line Trying to make up all their lost time From Buffalo to Washington You can wash my jumper starch my...

Nineteen and sixteen I started to roam, Out in the West, no money, no home I went drifting along with the tide, I landed on the Great Divide ...

In a little village churchyard There I see a grassy mound There my sweetheart lies a-sleeping In the cold and silent ground Gently waves the weeping...

One stormy day, me and my buddy Started on our roundup ride The wind and dust blew hard around us, My buddy strayed far from my side We were...

Last night the pale moon was shining Last night when all was still I wandered alone in sadness Out among the woodland hills I heard the birds...

Far away upon a hill on a sunny mountain side Many years ago we parted, my own true love and I From the sunny mountain side Oh she clung to me and...

The flowers I saw in the wildwood Have since dropped their beautiful leaves And the many dear friends of my childhood Have slumbered many years in...

Far away in a Spanish dungeon A Cuban soldier lay Slowly dying from the torture Inflicted day by day He begged to send a message But this kindness...

When first I met my darling daisies Down by the garden wall I was walking along the street so shady I was going for a twilight call I love to sing...

I cant forget how queer I felt When first I fell in love I had a most sincere tactor Squeezing a lady's glove Her lovely hand was in it As I waltzed...

I wondered today on the sea shore The waves and the winds are low I thought of the days gone by Maud Many long years ago We lingered by the gently...

It was on last Sunday evening Just about the hour of three When my darling started to leave me And sail on the deep blue sea He promised to write me...

Look away from the cross to that glittering crown From your cares weary watch look away There's a home for the soul where no sorrows can come And...