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Buell Kazee, vocal and banjo - Look Up, Look Down that Lonesome Road

from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 4: The Anglo​-​African Exchange by Field Recorders' Collective

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Look up, look down that lonesome road
Hang down your head and cry.

True love, true love, what have I done
That you should treat me so?
You’ve caused me to walk that lonesome road
That I never walked before.

The longest train I ever saw
Was on the Georgia line
The engine went down at six o'clock
And the cab went down at nine.

The prettiest girl in this wide world
Was a-standing on behind
The whistle blew and the bell did ring
The engine rolled ahead
The train did wreck in a mile of town
And killed my true love dead.

If I had wings like Noah's dove
I’d fly to my true love’s door
I'd walk the porch from post to post
Hang down my head and cry.

Look up, look down that lonesome road
Hang down your head and cry.

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from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 4: The Anglo​-​African Exchange, released August 7, 2023
Recorded by Mark Wilson, Winchester, KY, 3/73.

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