New Cut Road-Guy Clark

[ti:New Cut Road] [ar:Guy Clark] [al:The South Coast of Texas] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]New Cut Road - Guy Clark [00:10.50]Coleman Bonner was a fiddle playing fool [00:13.69]He's a backwoods rounder and a breaker of mules [00:17.38] [00:18.09]Coleman bonner's got a wore out bow [00:21.47]He's been playing two days down the new cut road [00:25.31] [00:25.83]Coleman's little sister said you better act right coleman [00:30.17]Daddy's gone to Louisville he'll be back tonight [00:33.72]He's gonna get another wagon and a good pair of mules [00:37.68]And we gonna move to texas we just waiting on you [00:41.89]Now coleman's daddy he pulled up in the yard [00:45.70]He said pack up your lives kids it's getting too hard [00:49.98]Kentucky's alright [00:51.71]But there's too many people [00:53.63]Oh just the other day I thought I saw a church steeple [00:57.84]Now coleman said daddy don't you worry 'bout me [01:01.99]I'm gonna stay here in Kentucky till the day I d [01:05.79]I'm gonna drink that sourmash and gonna race that mare [01:10.02]And find that woman with the fox red hair [01:14.13]Now you all been moving west since the day you got married [01:18.02]Well I'm getting off the wagon daddy [01:19.92]I'm too old to be carried [01:22.24]Gonna stay here in Kentucky where that bluegrass grow [01:26.27]I'm gonna play it all night down the new cut road [01:29.75] [01:45.99]Now coleman's daddy said what's it all comming to [01:50.38]Young people these days are just as stubborn as mules [01:54.25]You can't make him go [01:56.10]He's too old for that [01:58.01]It's that damned old fiddle and that bowler hat [02:01.69] [02:02.32]Now coleman's mama said let the boy stay [02:05.98]'Cause he's raised up solid and he can find his own way [02:09.96] [02:10.52]But as for me honey I'm with you [02:14.09]I always thought Kentucky was just passing through [02:17.93] [02:18.53]Now coleman's little sister then she started into a crying [02:22.55]And his daddy shook his head for the very last time [02:26.60]Coleman's mama said somebody's gotta do it [02:30.50]Wouldn't be no Kentucky less you didn't stick to it coleman [02:35.04]Coleman booner stood on the porch of that cabin [02:38.24]And he watched 'em all go to texas in a covered wagon [02:41.86] [02:42.66]He pulled out his fiddle and he rosined up his bow [02:46.66]And he played a little tune called the new cut road