No More The Moon Shines On Lorena (1930)-The Carter Family

[ti:No More The Moon Shines On Lorena (1930)] [ar:The Carter Family] [al:The Carter Family Selected Favorites, Vol. 8] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]No More The Moon Shines On Lorena (1930) - The Carter Family (卡特家族) [00:11.30]Way down upon the old plantation [00:15.91]Old Massey used to own me as a slave [00:19.86] [00:20.43]He had a yeller gal he called Lorena [00:24.39] [00:24.98]And we courted where the wild bananas wave [00:28.90] [00:29.72]For long years there we courted [00:33.57] [00:34.13]And we were as happy as one [00:37.98] [00:38.57]And my hard work for did Massey [00:43.20]And the happiness of life had just begun [00:47.00] [00:47.67]No more the moon shines on Lorena [00:51.65] [00:52.22]As we'd sit and watched the coon among the corn [00:56.03] [00:56.74]And the possum playing on the wild bananas [01:00.64] [01:01.30]And the old owl a-hooting like a horn [01:05.05] [01:23.78]One day I called to see my dear Lorena [01:27.64] [01:28.16]I thought she would meet me at the gate [01:31.97] [01:32.59]But they took her away to old Virginny [01:36.94]And left me to mourn for her fate [01:40.84] [01:41.74]For years I had longed to see her [01:46.02]And the thoughts of her was ever in my head [01:49.78] [01:50.66]One day Massey read me a letter [01:54.92]Telling me that Lorena she was dead [01:58.67] [01:59.59]No more the moon shines on Lorena [02:03.32] [02:03.90]As we'd sit and watched the coon among the corn [02:07.64] [02:08.40]And the possum playing on the wild bananas [02:12.86]And the old owl a-hooting like a horn [02:16.53] [02:17.56]But I know that her soul has gone to heaven [02:21.12] [02:21.78]And there she is ever free from pain [02:25.42] [02:26.23]And to her a brighter crown is given [02:29.95] [02:30.70]And no more she will wear the darkie's chain [02:34.32] [02:35.28]No more the moon shines on Lorena [02:38.97] [02:39.52]As we'd sit and watched the coon among the corn [02:43.29] [02:44.00]And the possum playing on the wild bananas [02:47.87] [02:48.40]And the old owl a-hooting like a horn