Carter Family songs lyrics

When I am dead and gone from you darling When I am laid away in my grave When my spirit is gone to heaven above To Him whom my soul will save Oh...

When first I heard of a people who claimed This old time religion was real I says I'll go down and look at the crowd It's just the weak minded I feel...

Twelve hundred miles its length and breadth Before it's where fifty stands It's gin ? set walls of jasper shine Not made with human hands One hundred...

In the distant state of Texas By the silver Rio Grande Strolled a couple out one evening Was two sweethearts hand in hand Was a rich man's pretty...

We have met and we have parted We have spoke our last goodbye You have proved to me false hearted You may now forever go You have wrecked the heart...

Fond memory paints us scenes of other years We need our memories still And Christ amid those joyous seats and chairs The school house on the hill ...

The night was dark and stormy The wind was howling wild As an aged mother gazed upon The portrait of her child As she gazed on the baby's features...

'Twould been better for us both had we never In this wide and wicked world had never met, But the pleasure we both seemed to gather I'm sure, love,...

We shall see the desert as the rose Walking in the kings highway There'll be singing where salvation goes Walking in the kings highway There's a...

I have changed with changing seasons I am dimmed with toil and care When I stand among the angels Will my mother know me there Yes I know that she...

Just at the close of a bright summer day Just as the twilight had faded away Soft on the breeze like the coo of a dove Someone was singing an old...

Along came the FFV, the fastest on the line, Running along the C and O Road, twenty minutes behind the time Running into Sewall Yard, was quartered...

They stood on the beach one evening Out in the moonlight fair Twas a boy in the pride of manhood And a girl in beauty rare I never had thought that...

Oh Willie my darling come back I will ever be faithful and true Oh Willie my darling come back I'll forever be faithful to you I remember once...

One beautiful night when the moon was full And the air was crisp and clear A cowboy lay on the star lit plain And thought of his home so dear He...

I once had a dark haired true lover She was all this world to me She promised herself to another Now don't you think this was mean Take back every...

Along came the F15 the swiftest on the line Running o'er the C&O road just twenty minutes behind Running into Cevile head porters on the line...

Last night I told my heart's love All under the pale blue sky Eagerly waiting an answer I plainly could read in her eyes I love you sweetheart I...