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Down the Road (Ida Red)
02:11
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Buffalo Skinners
03:59
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I'm Getting Ready to Go
04:05
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Roustabout
04:19
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Rolling Mills
03:51
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Streamline Cannonball
03:32
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FFV
04:22
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Chris Lively and Wife
04:26
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Kassie Jones
04:48
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Big Stone Gap
01:48
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Roll Big Sandy Roll
03:49
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CHORUS: Roll, Big Sandy, roll,
The river and the willow,
The times and the towns you've known,
The coal trains and the back roads.
1. What you gonna do when your love runs out?
Gonna sit by the river with my head bowed down.
I'm gonna sit by the river with my face so long
And think about the times since you been gone. CHORUS
2. What you gonna to do when the river runs dry?
Gonna walk up the track—where the weeds grow high.
On the rotten crossties and the cinders and the slack,
And know by then that you ain't coming' back. CHORUS
3. What you gonna do when the yard's tore down?
Gonna walk up the alleys in the old mill towns,
Counting all the windows where nobody lives,
And counting all the words that never was said. CHORUS
4. What you gonna do when the mill runs slow?
The people are shifting with nowhere to go,
I'll sit with the old men—the whisky and the rye,
And I’ll sing about the good times—all gone by. CHORUS
5. What you gonna do when the boys go home,
Your pockets are empty and you're sittin' alone
I'm back on the bottom where I've been before,
Waitin' for the wind and the river to roll. CHORUS
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18. |
Kissing on the Sly
02:24
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20. |
Blue Mountain
04:40
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21. |
When the Wagon was New
02:56
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Devilish Mary
02:06
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24. |
Factory Side of Town
03:18
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25. |
Cairo
03:03
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26. |
Country Blues
02:44
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27. |
New Harmony
04:07
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Chorus:
And I've been sitting by the Ohio
Watching the tow boats rolling up slow
Thinking of the places we used to go
You've been on my mind
1. Evening hillsides, summertime
Jars we filled with fireflies
I remember you and I
Say, it's been a long old time
2. Rain across the bottom land
Broken stones from an old mill dam
West wind blowin' in the dawning day
Enough to blow the blues my way
3. Rusty rails, an old river town
whistle blowing New Orleans bound
Cornfields waiting for the plow
Oh, the things that I can't tell you now.
4. Indiana back roads,
Winter sky so deep and cold
The new moon's arms cradle the old
Come home songs on the radio.
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28. |
Goodbye to the Lowlands
03:45
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My hometown's been tore down, I can't find my way,
With its high-gabled houses and my grand-dad's old place
And the last hobo camps have been bulldozed away,
And lately I wonder just why I should stay.
Goodbye to the lowlands and the green fields of home.
Goodbye to the long roads I loved to roam.
Goodbye to the good friends and the good times I've known.
(I'm) going away, and maybe going home.
They've landscaped the cornfields, the back roads are paved
And they've built lots of houses with false country names
Names of the farms and the fields that they've changed,
But they can't hide the truth of what little remains.
There's a love I remember when I told him goodbye
With the deep hurt of parting, I was too lost to cry.
There's a love I remember for a place and a time
They're gone like the trains that once passed in the night
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Craig Johnson North Carolina
Craig Johnson grew up in Wayne, MI and attended UM. While at college, he became enamored of old-time string band music. He
learned fiddle, banjo, and guitar, and was a renowned singer and songwriter. Since 1972 he was always in a stringband—most notably, Double Decker Stringband.
He recorded 6 albums.with Double Decker. He also appears on the CD “Birdie” and a solo CD, “Away Down the Road".
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