Song Category: Old-time

See the engine puffing, boy she’s making time That old trains wearing out the rail, rail, rail Heading for the mountain that she’s got to climb Brin...

O bury me not on the lone prairie These words came low and mournfully From the cold pale lips of a youth who lay On his dying bed at the close of day He’d...

The days are long the nights are lonely Since you left me all alone I worried so my little darling I worried so since you’ve been gone    Sweetheart of mi...

   Mama said don’t go near that river    Don’t be hangin’ around old catfish John    Come the morning I’d always be there    Walking in ...

Rich girl lives in a big brick house Poor girl she does the same My gal lives in the Nashville jail It’s a brick house just the same She’ll be comin...

My old hen’s a good old hen She lays eggs for the railroad men Sometimes 8 and sometimes ten That’s enough for the railroad men    Cluck old hen clu...

You ought to see my Cindy she lives way down south She’s so sweet the honey bees swarm around her mouth Get along home Cindy Cindy Get along home Cindy Ci...

   You get a line and I’ll get a pole honey    You get a line and I’ll get a pole babe    You get a line and I’ll get a pole    And we’l...

I got a girl and she loves me She’s as sweet as sweet can be She’s got eyes of baby blue Makes my gun shoot straight and true.    Goin’ up Cri...

There’s a low, green, valley on the old Kentucky shore Where I’ve whiled many happy hours away, Just a sitting and a singing by the little cottage d...