Talk To Me Fiddle-The Charlie Daniels Band

[ti:Talk To Me Fiddle] [ar:The Charlie Daniels Band] [al:The Ultimate Charlie Daniels B] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talk To Me Fiddle - The Charlie Daniels Band [00:17.90]If this old fiddle could talk if this old fiddle could sing [00:20.15] [00:20.72]Man if this old fiddle could only talk it could tell [00:23.59] [00:24.22]You some wondrous things talk to me fiddle [00:26.22]Tell me about when you came across the sea [00:27.59]In the hands of a Jewish immigrant who was [00:29.65]Longing to be free you were part of his life [00:32.28]For forty years through times both lean and fat [00:34.59]And he raised his family and lived out his days [00:36.41]In a New York tenement flat talk to me fiddle [00:39.03] [00:51.72]Talk to me fiddle tell me about how that Cajun [00:53.91] [00:54.59]Fiddlin' man found you in a pawn shop and took [00:56.97]You back down to the Louisiana bayou land [00:58.28] [00:58.91]You knew his wife and you knew his kids [01:00.47]And you watched his family grow and you [01:01.97]Played your heart out Cajun style at the Louisiana Fais Do Do [01:04.00] [01:21.49]Then a big shot Yankee gambler found you [01:22.92]Down in New Orleans and took you up the [01:25.68]River on the Mississippi Queen then there [01:28.30]Came the day that you were all that he had left to lose [01:31.18]And a black man won you in a poker game [01:33.11]And taught you how to play the blues cry for me fiddle [01:36.49] [01:59.30]Then a young man from the mountains of Kentucky came along [02:01.80] [02:02.49]And he bought you for a dollar took you all away back home [02:05.93]He gave you to his grandpa on his golden wedding day [02:08.30] [02:10.49]And people had come from miles around just to hear the old man play [02:12.00] [02:27.97]Dance for them fiddle [02:28.72]Then a hobo from Biloxi found you living in the rain [02:31.04]And he got himself a free ride on a west-bound cattle train [02:33.67] [02:34.35]You got off in Texas where they play that western swing [02:37.10] [02:37.85]Where the people do the two-step and old Bob Wills was the king [02:41.04] [02:42.35]Swing for me fiddle [02:43.72] [02:58.60]If this old fiddle could talk if this old fiddle could sing [03:00.92] [03:01.60]Man if this old fiddle could only talk it could tell [03:03.66]You some wondrous things you've been bouncing around America [03:06.67]From sea to shining sea now your traveling days are over fiddle [03:10.17]'Cause you belong to me [03:11.60] [03:19.96]