Cold Black Heart-Shawn Mullins

[ti:Cold Black Heart] [ar:Shawn Mullins] [al:9Th Ward Pickin' Parlor] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cold Black Heart - Shawn Mullins [00:18.62]I once had a true love her name was Maggie Brown [00:22.78]Her eyes they were the color of the sun burning down [00:26.90]And she had hair that smelled like jasmine [00:29.27]I loved her from the start [00:31.57]How was I to know shed have a cold black heart [00:36.16] [00:45.26]Well Maggie was my true love the only kiss I knew [00:49.50]I meet her at the oak tree in the cool evening dew [00:53.14]Where we would walk beside the levee our fingers intertwined [00:58.55]While the crimson moon gazed through the needles of the pines [01:02.98] [01:20.95]Wed lay beside each other staring at the sky [01:25.26]Listenin to the whistlin of the train blowin by [01:29.07]As it was on it's way to [01:31.11]Macon the town where I was born [01:34.12]Wed make love in the darkness 'til the hours of the morn [01:38.80] [02:14.70]Waterfalls and rainbows sweet salvation sin [02:18.95]As I lay there sleeping against her golden skin [02:22.62]My friends now gather around and listen close [02:25.74]The story takes a turn I wasn't fair young [02:29.12]Maggies only lover I did learn [02:32.13] [02:50.23]I went down by the oak tree lookin for my lass [02:54.53]And walked east towards the levee with the sunset in my past [02:58.51]And then I ran through briars and [03:00.27]Brambles until I finally found [03:03.44]My Maggie and her true love there lyin on the ground [03:07.99]My eyes they filled with fire they didn't see me there [03:12.33]I watched as she made love to him [03:14.85]Caressed him with her hair [03:16.30]I don't remember how it happened [03:19.04]I guess I just saw red [03:21.26]I drew my pistol from my belt and shot them graveyard dead [03:25.76] [04:02.06]I once loved a maiden her name was Maggie Brown [04:05.99]But now I'm riding on a boxcar back to Macon town [04:10.24]The setting sun will never let me [04:12.78]Forget what deed I have done [04:14.79]Until the day they hunt me down [04:17.43]I'm livin on the run