Jimmy Martin-Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

[00:35.93]Well they call me Jimmy Martin [00:42.49]And they say that I can sing [00:46.93]Of them lonesome broken hearted [00:51.23]Boys of bluegrass I'm the King [00:55.92]I was born up in the mountains [01:00.25]I was raised in poverty [01:04.56]Made a guitar out of nothing but a cigar box and strings [01:13.58]Took a bus across to Nashville and that's where I was employed [01:22.27]Picking guitar and singing tenor [01:26.55]With Bill Monroe and his bluegrass boys [01:31.27]Yeah they call me Jimmy Martin [01:37.70]And they say that I can sing [01:41.84]Of them lonesome broken hearted [01:46.32]Boys of bluegrass I'm the King [01:49.43] [02:08.24]Back in ninteen fifty nine with the sunny mountain boys [02:16.73]On that Louisiana Hayride you never heard such wondrous noise [02:25.37]We tore it up at the Grand Ole Opry [02:29.80]Walking shoes and free born man [02:34.08]But the circle is still broken [02:38.23]My greatest dream slipped through my hands [02:43.06]Well they call me Jimmy Martin [02:51.60]And they say that I can sing [02:55.80]Of them lonesome broken hearted [03:00.15]Boys of bluegrass I'm the King [03:04.49]Of them lonesome broken hearted [03:08.84]Boys of bluegrass I'm the King yeah [03:15.93]