Way Down The Old Plank Road-Uncle Dave MacOn/Preston Young

[ti:Way Down the Old Plank Road] [ar:Uncle Dave MacOn/Joseph Falcon] [al:Shine on Me: Classic American Folk Essentials from Robert Johnson, The Carter Family & More] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Way Down The Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave MacOn/Preston Young [00:26.96]Rather be in richmond [00:28.90]With all the hail and rain [00:30.57]Than to be in Georgia boys wearin' [00:32.85]That ball and chain [00:33.94]Won't get drunk no more [00:35.89]Won't get drunk no more [00:37.57]Won't get drunk no more [00:39.20]Way down the old plank road [00:41.20] [00:47.77]I went down to mobile [00:49.46]But I got on the gravel train [00:51.11]Very next thing they heard of me [00:53.10]Had on that ball and chain [00:54.81]Won't get drunk no more [00:56.50]Won't get drunk no more [00:58.19]Won't get drunk no more [00:59.79]Way down the old plank road [01:01.94] [01:08.65]Doney oh dear doney [01:10.14]What makes you treat me so [01:11.86]Caused me to wear that ball and chain [01:13.59]Now my ankle's sore [01:15.42]Won't get drunk no more [01:17.05]Won't get drunk no more [01:18.76]Won't get drunk no more [01:20.46]Way down the old plank road [01:22.44] [01:28.90]Knoxville is a pretty place [01:30.74]Memphis is a beauty [01:32.50]Wanta see them pretty girls [01:34.21]Hop to chattanoogie [01:36.07]Won't get drunk no more [01:37.60]Won't get drunk no more [01:39.25]Won't get drunk no more [01:41.00]Way down the old plank road [01:43.20] [01:55.99]I'm wanna build me a Scaffold [01:57.91]On some mountain high [01:59.58]So I can see my doney girl [02:01.45]As she goes riding by [02:03.18]Won't get drunk no more [02:04.87]Won't get drunk no more [02:06.59]Won't get drunk no more [02:08.30]Way down the old plank road [02:10.26] [02:16.43]My wife died on Friday night [02:18.41]Saturday she was buried [02:20.19]Sunday was my courtin' day [02:21.96]Monday I got married [02:23.60]Won't get drunk no more [02:25.33]Won't get drunk no more [02:27.00]Won't get drunk no more [02:28.70]Way down the old plank road [02:30.51] [02:37.27]Eighteen pounds of meat a week [02:38.94]Whiskey here to sell [02:40.45]How can a young man stay at home [02:42.22]Pretty girls look so well [02:43.92]Won't get drunk no more [02:45.68]Won't get drunk no more [02:47.36]Won't get drunk no more [02:49.09]Way down the old plank road [02:51.16] [02:53.75]Are you will