State of Arkansas-The Weavers

[ti:State of Arkansas] [ar:The Weavers] [al:The Collection 1957-1961] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.53]State of Arkansas - The Weavers [00:01.42]Written By：The Weavers [00:02.13] [00:04.89]My name is Charlie Brennan from Charleston I come [00:10.60] [00:11.97]I've traveled this wide world over some ups and downs I've had [00:17.73] [00:19.15]I've traveled this wide world over some ups and downs I've saw [00:25.20] [00:26.25]But I never really knew what misery was till I hit old Arkansas [00:34.58] [00:35.88]Got off the train in Little rock in the middle of winter [00:38.52] [00:39.20]Nobody there to extend to me his paw [00:41.45] [00:42.05]Or bid me welcome to this State of Arkansas [00:44.72] [00:45.63]And it was cold [00:46.48] [00:48.17]I dodged behind the depot to dodge that blizzard wind [00:52.63] [00:53.98]I met a walking skeleton he said his name was Thomas Quinn [00:59.97] [01:01.08]Well his hair hung down in rat-tails on his lean and lantern jaw [01:06.96] [01:08.14]He invited me to his hotel he said it was the best in Arkansas [01:15.41] [01:17.70]I followed my conductor to his respective place [01:22.73]Where pity and starvation were to be seen on every face [01:28.06] [01:29.38]Well his bread it was corn dodger and his meat I could not chaw [01:35.17] [01:36.36]But he charged me a half a dollar in the State of Arkansas [01:43.68] [01:45.60]And I went out and got me a job on a farm farming [01:49.54] [01:51.42]But I didn't care for the work or the farmer [01:54.38] [01:55.55]Or his wife and none of his children [01:57.20] [01:58.45]So I went up to him one day and I said [02:00.23]Mister I'm gonna quit this job and you can just pay me off right now [02:04.02] [02:05.99]He says Okay son if that's the way you feel about it [02:08.45]And he took me out in the barn and he handed me a mink skin [02:11.80] [02:14.03]I said I don't want this thing I want my money [02:15.89]For the work I've done [02:16.90] [02:18.10]He said Son you may not know it but mink's skin is [02:20.21]What we're using for currency down here now [02:22.79] [02:24.10]So I took it when into town hunted up a place [02:27.70] [02:29.60]Put my mink skin up on the counter and turned [02:31.72]If the bartender didn't toss me a pint [02:33.73] [02:35.79]And he picked up my mink skin blowed the hair back on it [02:38.87] [02:39.72]Put it under the counter fetched me out fourteen rabbit skins and [02:44.34]Three possum hives for change [02:46.51] [02:48.58]I'm going to the Indian territory and live outside the law [02:54.29] [02:55.62]I'll bid farewell to the kin bricks in the State of Arkansas [03:01.44] [03:02.63]If you ever see me back again I'll give to you my paw [03:08.43] [03:09.70]But it'll be though a telescope from Hell to Arkansas