1.The Banks of the Ohio
2.Pretty Polly
3.Omie Wise
She went upstairs to make her bed
And not one word to her mother said
Her mother, she went up there, too
Saying, 'Daughter, oh daughter, what's troubling you？'
'Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell
For the railroad boy that I love so well
He's courted me my life away
And now at home he will not stay
There is a tavern in London town
Where the railroad boy, he sits him down
He takes a strange girl on his knee
And he tells her things that he once told me'
Her father, he came in from work
Saying 'Where's my daughter, she seems so hurt'
He went upstairs to give her hope
But he found her hanging for a rope
He took his knife and he cut her down
And on her bosom these words he found
'Oh, dig my grave both wide and deep
Place a marble slab at my head and feet
And on my coffin place a snow white dove
To show this world that I died for love'.
4.The Railroad Boy
She went upstairs to make her bed
And not one word to her mother said
Her mother, she went up there, too
Saying, 'Daughter, oh daughter, what's troubling you？'
'Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell
For the railroad boy that I love so well
He's courted me my life away
And now at home he will not stay
There is a tavern in London town
Where the railroad boy, he sits him down
He takes a strange girl on his knee
And he tells her things that he once told me'
Her father, he came in from work
Saying 'Where's my daughter, she seems so hurt'
He went upstairs to give her hope
But he found her hanging for a rope
He took his knife and he cut her down
And on her bosom these words he found
'Oh, dig my grave both wide and deep
Place a marble slab at my head and feet
And on my coffin place a snow white dove
To show this world that I died for love'.
5.The Murder of the Lawson Family
It was on last Christmas Evening
A snow was on the ground
In a home in North Carolina
Where the murderer he was found
His name was Charlie Lawson
And he had a loving wife
But we'll never know what caused him
To take his family's life.
They say he killed his wife at first
And the little ones did cry
'Please papa, papa, spare our lives
For it is so hard to die'.
But the raging man could not be stopped
He would not heed their call
And he kept on firing fatal shots
Until he killed them all
And when the sad, sad news was heard
It was a great surprise
He killed six children and his wife
And then he closed their eyes
'And now farewell, kind friends and home
I'II see you all no more
Into my heart I'll fire a fatal shot
Then my troubles will be o'er.'
They did not carry him to jail
No lawyers did he pay
He'll have his trial in another world
On the final judgment day
They all were buried in a crowded grave
While angels watched above
'Come home, come home, my little ones
To the land of peace and love.'
'Come home, come home, my little ones
To the land of peace and love.'
6.Mary of the Wild Moor
7.The Knoxville Girl
I met a little girl in Knoxville, a town we all know well
And every Sunday evening out in her home I'd dwell
We went to take an evening walk about a mile from town
I picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fair girl
down.
She fell down on her bended knees, for mercy she did cry
'Oh, Willie, Willie, don't kill me, I'm unprepared to die'
She never spoke another word, I only beat her more
Until the ground around me with her red blood did flow.
I took her by her golden curls, I drug her round and round
Throw her into the river that flows through Knoxville town
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl with the dark and rolling
eyes
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl, you can never be my bride.
I started back to Knoxville, got there around midnight
My mother, she was worried and woke up in a fright
Saying 'Dear son, what have you done to bloody you clothing so？'
And I told my anxious mother I was bleeding from my nose
I called for me a candle to light myself to bed
I called for me a handkerchief to bind my aching hand
I rolled and tumbled my whole night through, as troubles was for
me
Like flames of hell around my bed and in my eyes could see.
They carried me down to Knoxville and put me in a cell
My friends all tried to get me out, but none could go my bail
I'm here to waste my life away down in this dirty old jail
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl, the girl I love so well.
8.Down in the Willow Garden
9.The Drunkard's Doom
10.Poor Edward
11.Henry Lee
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