Hills Of Roane County Lyrics

In the beautiful hills, in the midst of Roane Country

There's where I roamed for many long years

There's where my heart's been tending most ever

That's where the first step of misfortune I made

I was about thirty years when I courted and married

Amanda Gilbraith I then called my wife

For some unknown reason her brother Tom stabbed me

Just three months later I'd taken Tom's life

For twenty five years this whole world I rambled

I went to old England to France and to Spain

But I thought of my home way back in Roan Country

I boarded a steamer and came back again

I was captured and tried in the village of Spenser

Not a man in the county would speak one kind word
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When the jury came in with the verdict next morning

A lifetime in prison were the words that I heard

When the train pulled out poor mother stood weepin

And sister she sat all alone with a sigh

And the last words I heard was Willie God bless you

Was Willie God bless you, God bless you, good bye

In the scorching hot sand of [Bamly?] I'm working

Yes working and toiling my life all away

They'll measure my grave on the bank of old [Cumberland?]

Just as soon as I finish the rest of my days

No matter what happens to me in Roane County

No matter how long my sentence may be

Boys when you write home from a sturdy old prison

Put one of my songs in your letter for me