Hazel dickens

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...

Last week I played with a tiny baby I thought how soon he'd be a man But the day came last time Rock his cradle he's Oh here today, and gone tomorrow That's how life in this world is Oh here today and...

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...

I held him as close as I dared to go All his sweet love has started to show I know that I need him, but trustin his love But the scars from an old love haven't quite healed enough Yes the battle is...