 Genius Lyrics
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons
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[Verse 1] / Some people say a man is made out of mud / A poor man's made out of muscle and blood / Muscle and blood and skin and bones / A mind that's weak and a back that's strong
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – The Star Carol
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[Verse 1] / Long years ago on a deep winter night / High in the heavens a star shone bright / While in a manger a wee baby lay / Sweetly asleep on a bed of hay / [Verse 2] / Jesus
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Nine Pound Hammer
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[Intro] / Roll on, buddy, don't you roll so slow / How can I roll when the wheels won't go? / [Verse 1] / This nine pound hammer is a little too heavy / For my size, honey, for my
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Mule Train
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Mule train (giddyup, pah, giddahh) *whip* (heah)...*whip* / Mule train (yeah-ha) *whip* / Clippity-cloppin' *whip* over hill and plain / Seems as how they never stop / Clippity-
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Dark as a Dungeon
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Come listen you fellers, so young and so fine / And seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mines / It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul / Till the stream of your blood is
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – John Henry
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When John Henry was a little-bitty boy / Sittin' on his mommy's knee; / He picked up a hammer and a little piece of steel / Said "this hammer's gonna be the death of me" / "This
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Goober Peas
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Sitting by the Roadside on a summer's day / Chatting with my messmates passing time away / Lying in the shadow underneath the trees / Goodness how delicious, eating goober peas
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – The Bonnie Blue Flag
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Written and performed for the first time in Jackson Mississippi in April 1861, this was the first popular marching song of the Confederacy.
The song remained popular through the
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – The Fall of Charleston
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Oh have you heard the glorious news, is the cry from every mouth / Charleston is taken, and the rebels put to rout; / And Beauregard the chivalrous, he ran to save his bacon
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Tennessee Ernie Ford (Ft. Tennessee Ernie Ford) – Shenandoah
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Oh, Shenandoah / I hear you calling / Hi-O, you rolling river / Oh, Shenandoah / I long to hear you / Hi-O, I'm bound away / 'Cross the wide Missouri / Missouri, she's a mighty
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – That's All
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Some people go to school / To try and learn how to teach / Some people go to school / To try and learn how to preach / But if you preach after goin' to school / Be sure you preach
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Stonewall Jackson’s Way
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Paroles de la chanson Stonewall Jackson's Way : / Come, stack arms, men. Pile on the rails / Stir up the campfire bright; / No matter if the canteen fails / We'll make a roaring
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Trouble in Mind
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Trouble in mind I'm blue / But I won't be blue always / Cause the sun's gonna shine / In my back-door someday / Trouble in mind I'm blue / I have almost lost my mind / Sometimes I
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – O Holy Night
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[Verse] / O Holy night! The stars are brightly shining / It is the night of the dear Savior's birth / Long lay the world in sin and error pining / 'Til He appeared and the soul
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – The New York Volunteer
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'Twas in the days of seventy-six / When freemen young and old / All fought for Independence then / Each hero brave and bold! / 'Twas then the noble Stars and Stripes / In triumph
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – What a Friend We Have in Jesus
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What a friend we have in Jesus / All our sins and griefs to bear / What a privilege to carry / Everything to God in prayer / Oh, what peace we often forfeit / Oh, what needless
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – The Southern Wagon
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Come all ye sons of freedom, and join our Southern band / We are going to fight the Yankees and drive them from our land / Justice is our motto, and providence our guide / So jump
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Peace In The Valley
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Oh well, I'm tired and so weary / But I must go alone / Till the lord comes and calls, calls me away, oh yes / Well the morning's so bright / And the lamp is alight / And the night
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – One Suit
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[Chorus] / One suit, one suit was all I had / One suit, one suit was all I had / One suit, one suit was all I had / And it was nothin' but an old gray, beat up plaid / [Verse 1
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – The Shot Gun Boogie
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There it stands in the corner with the barrel so straight / I looked out the winder and over the gate / The big fat rabbits are jumpin' in the grass / Wait 'till they hear my old
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Kiss Me Big
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Kiss me big, make me know it / When I been kissed, I wanna show it / When our lips meet just under my nose / Don't turn me loose till it curls my toes / That's the kind of kissin
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Ballad of Davy Crockett
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[Verse 1] / Born on a mountain in Tennessee / Greenest state in the land of the free / Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree / He killed him a b'ar when he was only three / [
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Lorena
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The years creep slowly by, Lorena / The snow is on the grass again / The sun's low down the sky, Lorena / The frost gleams where the flowers have been / But the heart throbs on as
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Farther Along
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Farther along we`ll know more about it / Farther along we`ll understand why / Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine / We`ll understand it all by and by / Tempted and tried will
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Dixie
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Hear the Northern thunders mutter! / Northern flags in South winds flutter! / To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie! / Send them back your fierce defiance! / Stamp upon the cursed
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Smokey Mountain Boogie
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If 'ya wanna do the boogie, come along with me / I'll take 'ya to the top of East Tennessee / And do the Smokey Mountain Boogie / (Smokey Mountain Boogie) / Smokey Mountain Boogie
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Bringing In The Sheaves
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Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness / Sowing in the noontide and the dewy eve; / Waiting for the harvest, and the time of reaping / We shall come rejoicing, bringing in
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Funny How Time Slips Away
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[Verse 1] / Well, hello there / My, it's been a long, long time / How am I doing? / Mm, I guess I'm doing fine / It's been so long now / And it seems that it was only yesterday
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Virginia's Bloody Soil
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Come all you loyal unionists, wherever you may be / I hope you'll pay attention and listen unto me / For well you know the blood and woe, the misery, the toil / It took to down
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Hey Mister Cotton Picker
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[Verse 1] / Hey yonder comes a cotton picker walkin' down the road / Puffin' like a locomotive, carryin' a load / Hey mister cotton picker, what'cha gonna do? / Gonna get gone away
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – The Girl I Left Behind Me
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The hour was sad, I left the maid / A lingering farewell taking / Her sighs and tears, her steps delayed / I thought her heart was breaking / In hurried words, her name I blessed
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Riding a Raid
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'Tis old Stonewall the rebel that leans on his sword / And while we we are mounting prays low to the Lord / Now each cavalier who lover honor and right / Let him follow the feather
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – The Faded Coat of Blue
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My brave lad sleeps in his faded coat of blue; / In a lonely grave unknown lies the heart that beat so true / He sank faint and hungry among the famishd brave / And they laid him
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – The Army of the Free
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In the army of the Union we are marching in the van / And will do the work before us, if the bravest soldiers / Can / We will drive the Rebel forces from their strongholds / To the
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – My Hobby
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My hobby / I want you for my hobby / After work I need something to do / My hobby / I'll build a Hobby Lobby / Baby, just for me and you / Some build model airplanes / And some
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Anticipation Blues
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She just got home from the doctor's / I just got home from the mill / She looked a little peaked, her eyes were kind-a streaked / I couldn't figure out what made her ill / She
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Have You Seen Her
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[Verse 1] / Have you seen her / The girl of my desire? / The one that will inspire me / And set my heart afire / [Verse 2] / I have heard her / Speak words of deepest love / That
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – In The Garden
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I come to the garden alone / While the dew is still on the roses; / And the voice I hear falling on my ear / The Son of God discloses / And He walks with me and / He talks with me
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – The Cry of the Wild Goose
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[Verse 1] / Tonight I heard the wild goose cry / Wingin' north in the lonely sky / Tried to sleep, but it ain't no use / 'Cause I am the brother to the old wild goose / [Chorus
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – The Why and the Wherefore
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Where, where, where, where / Where are you bound, young man? / I'm off to the war with good men and true / And hadn't you better come along too? / I speak my mind quite freely
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Marching Through Georgia
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Bring the good old bugle boys, we'll sing another song! / Sing it with the spirit that will start the world along! / Sing it as we used to sing it, 50, 000 strong! / While we were
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – No Letter Today
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[Verse 1] / No letter today, I have waited since dawn / I've waited each day since you have been gone / No letter today, all the days are so long / Oh, why don't you write? I know
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – The Old Rugged Cross
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On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross / The emblem of suffering and shame; / And I love that old cross where the dearest and best / For a world of lost sinners was slain
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – Tailor Made Woman
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[Verse 1] / There's an old sayin' 'bout roll your own / There's tailor made suits that's quite well known / There's a tailor made woman that's hard to beat / Takes a tailor made
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Tennessee Ernie Ford – The Rebel Soldier
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Oh Polly, oh Polly, it's for your sake alone / I've left my old father, my country and my home / I've left my old mother, to weep and to mourn / I am a Rebel soldier, and far from
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