Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Goin' Back to Harlan , by - Emmylou Harris. Release date: 25.09.1995
Song language: English
Goin' Back to Harlan |
| There were no cuckoos, no sycamores |
| We played about the forest floor |
| Underneath the silver maples, the balsams, and the sky |
| We popped the heads off dandelions |
| Assuming roles from nursery rhymes |
| Rested on the riverbank and grew up by and by |
| And grew up by and by |
| Frail my heart apart |
| And play me a little «Shady Grove» |
| Ring the bells of Rhymney |
| 'Til they ring inside my head forever |
| Bounce the bow |
| Rock the gallows |
| For the hangman’s reel |
| And wake the devil from his dream |
| I’m going back to Harlan |
| I’m going back to Harlan |
| I’m going back to Harlan |
| And if you were Willie Moore |
| And I was Barbara Allen |
| Or Fair Ellen all sad at the cabin door |
| A-weeping and a-pining for love |
| A-weeping and a-pining for love |
| Frail my heart apart |
| And play me a little «Shady Grove» |
| Ring the bells of Rhymney |
| 'Til they ring inside my head forever |
| Bounce the bow |
| Rock the gallows |
| For the hangman’s reel |
| And wake the devil from his dream |
| I’m going back to Harlan |
| I’m going back to Harlan |
| I’m going back to Harlan |
| I’m going back to Harlan |
| I’m going back to Harlan |
| I’m going back to Harlan |