Farewell to Kentucky

Another 5090 song

Lyrics:

Oh my Pappy is dead
And my Mammy is too
They took to their beds
And they died of the flu

All good things must end
The bank took our home
I said good-bye to my friends
And I started to roam

(chorus)
Farewell to Kentucky
And to sweet Rosalee
I always thought we would marry
But it’s not meant to be

I worked on the rivers
I worked on the sea
Until a white shark
Took a bite out of me

A one-legged man
Can’t haul on a sheet
So I found myself
Back out on the street

(chorus)
Farewell to Kentucky
And to sweet Rosalee
I always thought we would marry
But it’s not meant to be

I took to the begging
Then I stole a gun
I held up a store
And went on the run

I ran through the country
And I ran through the town
With the law close behind me
And jail bearin’ down

(chorus)
Farewell to Kentucky
And to sweet Rosalee
I always thought we would marry
But it’s not meant to be

One desperate dark night
I broke into a house
I crept up the stairs
Just as quiet as a mouse

There a lady was dreaming
Fast asleep in her bed
But when she started screaming
I filled her with lead

(chorus)
Farewell to Kentucky
And to sweet Rosalee
I always thought we would marry
But it’s not meant to be

The silence was deadly
Then the sirens commenced
My running was over
My relief was immense

Then they brought out the corpse
And they pulled back the sheet
There dead on the gurney
Was my sweet Rosalee

(chorus)
Farewell to Kentucky
And to sweet Rosalee
I always thought we would marry
But it’s not meant to be

Yes, farewell to Kentucky
And to sweet Rosalee
Now she is in Heaven
But it will be Hell for me

Begin Again

Another 5090 song.

(I thought I would start writing a series of lyrics based around a course on spirituality that I started last year. Not that all the songs will be spiritual, though some may.

This one serves two purposes, because the first booklet is about starting the course, intiation, etc. and I lost it a couple of weeks ago when I left my bag on a train. So loss comes into it, but the truth is I started the course well over a year and a half ago and just recently decided to go back the beginning to re-engage with it – hence the booklet was in the bag that got lost. Anyway, this song isn’t particularly spiritual, but it is the first of many – I hope!)

Lyrics:

(verse 1:)
You say that there is nothing left
And this thing we have should really end
But before you go I’d just like to suggest
That we could always begin again

(chorus:)
Darling let’s
Begin again
It would really 
Be a sin
If we just
Gave up on us
Without trying
To begin again

(verse 2:)
Now Adam he loved Eve back in the garden
And they fell out, as do the best of friends
But even after they got kicked out by the warden
They decided to begin again

(chorus)

(bridge:)
Everything has its appointed hour
All things must come to an end
But love is like the apple flower
In springtime it begins again

(verse 3:)
Just as one door shuts, another opens
Honey open that door and let me in
So I can help to fix whatever’s broken
Let’s walk through and begin again

(chorus x 2)