Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Taneytown , by - Steve Earle. Song from the album El Corazon, in the genre Иностранный рокRelease date: 25.09.1997
Record label: Warner
Song language: English
Taneytown |
| I went down to taneytown |
| I went down to taneytown |
| To see what I could see |
| My mama told me never go |
| But I’m almost 22 years old |
| Sometimes I fear this holler swallow me |
| She ran off to Gettysburg |
| Went off with that new beau of hers |
| I snuck off after dark |
| Long way down the county road |
| Stars were bright |
| The moon was low |
| Down to where the black top highway starts |
| I could see everybody stared at me |
| You’d think that they ain’t never seen |
| A coloured boy before |
| They chunked at me at me |
| Called me names |
| They’d have whipped me sure but the sheriff came |
| I slipped off through the dry goods store |
| I ran down division street |
| Some of them boys followed me |
| Down to the rail-road track |
| Four of them and I can’t fight |
| But I had my old randall knife |
| I cut that boy and I never did look back |
| Month went by without a word |
| Somebody down the holler heard |
| About that boy they hung |
| He begged those men to spare his life |
| But I dropped my bloody randall knife |
| He picked it up so they thought he was the one |