Roane County Prison-Bill Monroe

[ti:Roane County Prison] [ar:Bill Monroe] [al:All Over The World] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Roane County Prison - Bill Monroe (比尔·门罗) [00:00.02]Written by：Joe Ahr [00:00.04] [00:08.07]In the beautiful hills in the mists of Roane county [00:13.84] [00:15.77]There's where I have roamed for many long years [00:21.74] [00:24.07]There's where my heart's been tending most ever [00:30.12] [00:32.32]There's where the first step of misfortune I made [00:36.06] [00:38.37]It's about thirty years when I courted and married [00:44.53] [00:46.68]Armanda Gilbraith I'd soon call my wife [00:52.29] [00:54.83]My brother he stabbed me for some unknown reason [01:00.73] [01:02.91]Just three month's later I'd taken Tom's life [01:06.81] [01:09.09]I was captured and tried in the village of Kingston [01:15.20] [01:17.32]Not a man in that county would speak one kind word [01:23.08] [01:25.69]When the jury came in with the verdict next mornin' [01:31.54] [01:33.79]A lifetime in prison was the words that I heard [01:37.55] [01:39.98]When the train pulled out poor mother stood weepin' [01:45.87] [01:48.22]And sister she sat all alone with a sigh [01:53.93] [01:56.49]And the last words I heard was willy god bless you [02:02.49] [02:04.77]Was willy god bless you god bless you goodbye [02:08.57] [02:10.92]In the scorching hot sand of the foundry I'm workin' [02:16.77] [02:19.55]Toiling and working my poor life away [02:24.89] [02:27.37]They'll measure my grave on the banks of old Cumberland [02:33.51] [02:35.67]Just as soon as I finish the rest of my days [02:39.37] [02:50.37]Boys when you write home from this prison in Nashville [02:56.42] [02:58.51]Place one of my songs in your letter for me