Old home place

Old home place Lyrics

It's been ten long years since I left my home in the hollow where I was born


Where the cool fall nights make the woods smell right and the fox hunter blows him horn


I fell in love with a girl from the town, I thought that she would be true


I ran away to Charlottsville and worked in a sawmill or two



What have they done to the old home place?


Why did they tear it down?


And why did I leave the plow in the field and look for a job in the town?



Now the girl ran off with somebody else, tarriffs took all my pay


And here I stand where the old home stood before they took it away


Now geese fly south and the cold wind blows as I stand here and hang my head


I lost my love and lost my home, and now I wish that I was dead



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