Blackie, Kentucky-Dolly Parton

[ti:Blackie, Kentucky] [ar:Dolly Parton] [al:The Tour Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Blackie, Kentucky - Dolly Parton [00:05.44]In my home town of Blackie Kentucky [00:09.86]He came passin' through one dark gloomy day [00:15.16] [00:15.84]And I considered myself as lucky [00:20.76]When he told me he would take me away [00:24.59] [00:25.56]And though he was older [00:28.00]It made me no difference [00:30.56]His promise of riches was all I could see [00:35.08] [00:36.48]At last I could leave the coal mines of Kentucky [00:41.36]And know something better than sad poverty [00:46.62] [00:47.86]Blackie Kentucky you know that I'll miss you [00:52.32]But there are other places in the world I'd like to see [00:57.21] [00:58.34]So I must take this chance to be somethin' more than nothin' [01:03.02]But I'll always hold you in my memory [01:07.10] [01:07.95]But I've never adjusted to sociable livin' [01:12.91]The friends that he knows [01:15.09]They're all strangers to me [01:17.99] [01:19.19]Thousands of miles from Blackie Kentucky [01:23.65]In a mansion with a husband that never loved me [01:28.75] [01:29.79]He won't let my family and friends come to visit [01:34.63]Because they are country and poor he's ashamed [01:39.69] [01:40.27]Oh but I'd give my life Lord [01:43.46]If I could just go see them [01:45.64]All that's changed about me is my name [01:49.74] [01:50.89]Blackie Kentucky oh Lord [01:53.92]How I miss you [01:55.50]If I could come back home [01:57.44]I'd never leave you anymore [02:00.52] [02:01.37]I'd like to see my poor hardworking coal-minin' Daddy [02:06.26]And Mama and the kids [02:08.44]And the friends I knew before [02:11.31] [02:12.24]My world is as black as the coal in Kentucky [02:17.07]He won't let me leave him - there's no way to win [02:22.10] [02:23.10]I'll take my own life dear God please forgive me [02:27.97]But I've got to get back home to Blackie once again [02:33.06] [02:34.92]An' I've left him a note [02:36.59]In the mornin' he'll find it [02:38.98]It's my last request and he can't refuse me [02:43.11] [02:45.11]I've told him to bury me back in Blackie Kentucky [02:49.17] [02:49.87]Where my family and my friends can come and visit me [02:53.60] [02:55.19]Blackie Kentucky I'm comin' home to you [02:59.70]But different from the way you remember me before [03:04.92] [03:05.66]So make me a place and I'll lay me down to rest [03:10.40]And I'll sleep in your arms forevermore [03:14.48] [03:15.29]I'll sleep in your arms forever more