A few old memories

West Virginia, oh my home. West Virginia, where I belong. In the dead of the night, in the still and the quiet I slip away like a bird In flight Back to those hills, the place that I call home. It's...

As you go from me you want all that's left The last thread of pride in my heart 'Til you've wrung the last teardrop from my eye You won't be satisfied. So take your cold unloving heart Your eyes too...

Fly away little pretty bird Fly Fly away Fly away little pretty bird And pretty you'll always stay I see in your eyes a promise Your own tender love you bring But fly away little pretty bird Close the...

You walk in the door, you see them sitting there The old people in shawls, in silver wheel chairs The blind and the lame, herded into a room Where there is no one to love, and nothing to do "Play...

Just a few old memories Slipped in through my door Though I thought I had closed it So tightly before I can't understand it Why it should bother my mind For it all belongs to another place and time...

There ain't much that's left here that ain't all run down. Gone all the echoes of old familiar sound. Families are scattered, parted, and gone. Left a lot of good things to wither away back home....

Hey I got the early Monday morning working blues I put on my worn out working shoes Well the weekend was too short but I can choose When the lord made the working girl, he made the blues Well I'm...

The bills are all dues, the babies need shoes, I'm busted Cotton is down to a quarter a pound, I'm busted Got a cow that's gone dry, hen that won't lay A big stack of bill's get bigger each day The...

She's lost a lot of herself that time cannot replace Bits and pieces of herself gone without a trace She's been holding on to everything that happened to be there She's all used up and forgotten and...