Ln Dont Stop Here Anymore

{title: The L&N don't stop here anymore}

{st:Jean Ritchie}

W[Em]hen I was a c[D]urly-headed ba[Em]by

My daddy set me d[D]own on his kn[Em]ee

Saying ``Son you go to sch[D]ool, you learn your le[Em]tters

Don't you be[C] no dusty mi[D]ner, boy like m[Em]e''

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I was bo[D]rn and raised at the mouth of the Hazard Ho[Em]ller

Where the co[D]al carts rolled and rumbled past my d[Em]oor

But now they stand in a ru[D]sty row of all em[Em]pties

Because the L[C]&N don't st[D]op here an[Em]ymore

I used to think my father was a black man

With scrip enough to buy the company store

But now he goes to town with empty pockets

And his face is as white as the February snow

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Never thought I'd live to lean to love the coaldust

Never thought I'd pray to hear those temples roar

But God I wish the grass would turn to money

And then them greenbacks would fill my pockets once more

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Last night I dreamed I went down to the office

To get my payday like I done before

But them old kudzu vines was covering the doorway

And there was leaves and grass growing up through the floor

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# Submitted to the ftp.nevada.edu:/pub/guitar archives

# by Ugo Piomelli <ugo@eng.umd.edu>

# 7 November 1992