The House Carpenter's Daughter

Well, I lived in a town Way down south By the name of Owensboro And I worked in a mill With the rest of the "trash" As we're often called As you know Well, we rise up early In the morning And we work all day real hard To buy our little meat and

Well, my heart is sad And I am lonesome For the only one I love When shall we meet? Oh no never Till we meet in heaven above So bury me underneath the willow Under the weeping willow tree So that he may know Where I am sleeping And perhaps he'll weep

If you see them father Please tell them I'm a poor mourning pilgrim Bound for Canaan land Well I weep and I moan And I move slowly on I'm a poor mourning pilgrim Bound for Canaan land If you see them sister Please tell them I'm a poor mourning pilgri

Come all you good workers Good news to you i'll tell Of how the good old union Has come in here to dwell Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? My daddy was a miner He's now in the air and sun He'll be with you fellow workers Until the ba

A woman of beauty A woman of pain In France or Jakarta Her shadow’s the same You go home with Sally Ann You go home with Sally Ann You go home A woman of kindness With bracelets of jade In China, in Japan Choices are made You go home with Sally Ann