《Roane County Prison》歌词

[00:00:00] Roane County Prison - Bill Monroe

[00:00:00] Written by：Joe Ahr

[00:00:08] In the beautiful hills in the mists of Roane county

[00:00:15] There's where I have roamed for many long years

[00:00:24] There's where my heart's been tending most ever

[00:00:32] There's where the first step of misfortune I made

[00:00:38] It's about thirty years when I courted and married

[00:00:46] Armanda Gilbraith I'd soon call my wife

[00:00:54] My brother he stabbed me for some unknown reason

[00:01:02] Just three month's later I'd taken Tom's life

[00:01:09] I was captured and tried in the village of Kingston

[00:01:17] Not a man in that county would speak one kind word

[00:01:25] When the jury came in with the verdict next mornin'

[00:01:33] A lifetime in prison was the words that I heard

[00:01:39] When the train pulled out poor mother stood weepin'

[00:01:48] And sister she sat all alone with a sigh

[00:01:56] And the last words I heard was willy god bless you

[00:02:04] Was willy god bless you god bless you goodbye

[00:02:10] In the scorching hot sand of the foundry I'm workin'

[00:02:19] Toiling and working my poor life away

[00:02:27] They'll measure my grave on the banks of old Cumberland

[00:02:35] Just as soon as I finish the rest of my days

[00:02:50] Boys when you write home from this prison in Nashville

[00:02:58] Place one of my songs in your letter for me