Way Down the Old Plank Road-Uncle Dave MacOn/Don Reno

[ti:Way Down the Old Plank Road] [ar:Uncle Dave MacOn] [al:Old Time Banjo - Vintage String Sound] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Way Down the Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave MacOn/Don Reno [00:26.44]Rather be in Richmond [00:27.75]With all the hail and rain [00:29.40]Than to be in Georgia boys wearin' [00:31.56]That ball and chain [00:32.92]Won't get drunk no more [00:34.62]Won't get drunk no more [00:36.30]Won't get drunk no more [00:38.07]Way down the Old Plank Road [00:39.56] [00:46.31]I went down to Mobile [00:47.86]But I got on the gravel train [00:49.70]Very next thing they heard of me [00:51.44]Had on that ball and chain [00:53.16] [01:06.90]Doney oh dear Doney [01:08.20]What makes you treat me so [01:10.08]Caused me to wear that ball and chain [01:11.63]Now my ankle's sore [01:12.97] [01:26.68]Knoxville is a pretty place [01:28.46]Memphis is a beauty [01:30.03]Wanta see them pretty girls [01:31.60]Hop to Chattanoogie [01:33.49] [01:53.17]I'm going to build me a scaffold [01:54.88]On some mountain high [01:56.51]So I can see my Doney girl [01:58.21]As she goes riding by [01:59.65] [02:13.17]My wife died on Friday night [02:14.85]Saturday she was buried [02:16.37]Sunday was my courtin' day [02:18.16]Monday I got married [02:19.76] [02:33.21]Eighteen pounds of meat a week [02:34.76]Whiskey here to sell [02:36.52]How can a young man stay at home [02:38.30]Pretty girls look so well