created 2025-04-11, & modified, =this.modified
rel: Lyrics
Thought
I was learning banjo casually for a bit. The transition from guitar wasn’t very difficult.
What attracted me, on some level, was the lyrics.
I will store some here.
# Over Yonder in the Graveyard
Over yonder in the graveyard
Where the wild wild flowers grow
Oh there they laid my own true lover
She’s gone from me forever more
Fairer than the sweetest flowers
Restless as a wildest wind
Born with love deep as the ocean
This is the girl that I did win
I left her there back in the mountains
To see the world riches to gain
When I returned no earthly treasure
Could ease this heart so full of pain
There so high upon that mountain
Beneath that little mound of clay
Oh the girl that I’d returned to marry
So still among the flowers did lay
I’ll go away and I will wander
Lay aside my earthly gains
And I’ll not end as a man with riches
Undone in sorry I’ll remain
# Short Life Of Trouble
Short life of trouble
A few more words to part
Short life of trouble dear girl
For a boy with a broken heart
Remember what you promised
Not more than a week ago
You promised that you’d marry me
Standing in your mama’s door
Now you’ve broken you’re promise
Go marry whom you may
For this old world’s so big and so wide
I’ll ramble back some day
Now you’ve gone and left me
I don’t know what I’ll do
I’d give the world and half of my life
Just to be married to you
# Hang Me
Hang me oh hang me
I'll be dead and gone
Hang me oh hang me
I'll be dead and gone
Wouldn't mind the hanging
But the laying in the grave so long
Poor boy
I've been all around this world