The Long Journey Home – Track list – click to go to lyrics
- Frost on the Ponies – C. Taylor & J. Land – instrumental
- Hello Stranger – A.P. Carter
- Big Sky Dreaming – J. Land & C. Taylor
- Jordan am a Hard Road – Dan Emmett
- So Far From Home (Immigrant Song) – J. Land & C. Taylor
- The Blackest Crow – Traditional
- That Ole Train – J. Land & C. Taylor
- Where the Soul of a Man Never Dies – William A. Golden
- Bright Eyes – J. Land & C. Taylor
- The Last Old Shovel – Alton Delmore
- The Little Black Train – A.P. Carter
- Tea for Two – J. Land & C. Taylor
- Why Did You Leave Me Dear – Jim Scott (Alton Delmore)
- Lay Me Down – J. Land & C. Taylor
- The Old Cross Road – Bill Monroe
- Ho Honey Ho – B. Osborne & T. Sutton
Hello stranger put your loving hand in mine
Hello stranger put your loving hand in mine
You are a stranger
But you’re a pal of mine
Now get up rounder let a working man lay down
Get up rounder let a working man lay down
You are a rounder
But you’re all out and down
Weeping like a willow and mourning like a dove
Weeping like a willow and mourning like a dove
There’s a boy up the country
That I really love
Every time I ride that six and fourth street car
Every time I ride that six and fourth street car
I see my darlin’ just a
Peepin’ through the bars
He bowed his head, Lord he waved both hands at me
He bowed his head, Lord he waved both hands at me
I’m prison bound
I’m longing to be free
Oh I’ll see you when your troubles are like mine
Oh I’ll see you when your troubles are like mine
Oh I’ll see you
When you haven’t got a dime
Big Sky Dreaming – lyrics J. Land & music J. Land & C. Taylor
Open road
Wind in my hair
I’m going home
Open road
There’s no one there
I’m all alone
Open road
Peace in my heart
I’m going home
Going home
Wind in my hair
The open road
Going home
There’s no one there
I’m all alone
Going home
Peace in my heart
I’m going home
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Rain may fall
Sun may shine
I don’t mind
The wind might blow
But I’ll find
The peace of mind
That I’ve searched for
All my life
In the ebb and flow
Of the tide
Open sky
There’s not a cloud
I’m going home
Open sky
Free to fly
I’m free to roam
Open sky
Peace in my heart
I’m going home
Going home
There’s not a cloud
The open sky
Going home
Free to fly
I’m free to roam
Going home
Peace in my heart
I’m going home
Open soul
No more fear
I’m going home
Open soul
Big sky dreaming
On my own
Open soul
Peace in my heart
I’m coming home
Going home
No more fear
My open soul
Going home
Big sky dreaming
On my own
Going home
Peace in my heart
I’m coming home
Jordan am a Hard Road – Dan Emmett
I’m gonna sing you a brand new song,
It’s all the truth for certain;
We cain’t live high, but we can get by,
And get on the other side of Jordan.
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Oh, pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeves,
Jordan’s a hard road to travel;
Oh, pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeves,
Oh, Jordan is a hard road to travel, I believe.
The public schools and the highways
Are raisin’ quite an alarm;
Get a country man educated just a little,
And he ain’t a-gonna work on the farm.
I don’t know, but I b’lieve I’m right,
The auto’s ruined the country;
Let’s go back to the horse and buggy,
And try to save some money.
I know a man that’s an evangelist,
His tabernacle’s always full;
People come from miles around
Just to hear him shoot the bull.
You may talk about your evangelist,
You may talk about Mister Ford too;
Well, Henry’s shakin’ more hell out of folks
Than all the evangelists do.
Rain forty nights, gonna rain forty days,
Gonna rain on the Allegheny mountains;
Gonna rain forty horses and dominicker mules,
Gonna take us on the other side of Jordan.
So Far From Home (Immigrant Song) – lyrics J. Land & music J. Land & C. Taylor
Left the only life I’d known
For I was bound to roam
My people are all dead and gone
There’s nothin’ left but bones
So far from home, I’m all alone, so far from home
All my fields had turned to dust
My heart had turned to stone
Nothin’ left to tie me down
I wandered out alone
So far from home, I’m all alone, so far from home
Water rising up all is sky
All above my head I cry
Now I lay me down goodbye
In my ocean bed so long
A stranger among strangers
To myself alone I keep
This wooden island desolate
On the briny deep
So far from home, I’m all alone, so far from home
Water all around me and
Not a drop to drink
I see the tempest drawing near
We’re surely bound to sink
So far from home, I’m all alone, so far from home
Waves are all around me now
I’m in the valley deep
No light can reach me here
The water is too deep
The Blackest Crow – Traditional
As time draws near my dearest dear when you and I must part
How little you know of the grief and woe in my poor aching heart
Each night I suffer for your sake, believe in what I say
I wish that I could go with you or you might tarry here.
My dearest dear, now dry your tears, I hate to see you cry
The best of friends must oft times part, and now it’s you and I
And when the wind blows cold and clear and I stand mourning here
The birds will sing on every tree, you are my dearest dear.
I wish my breast were made of glass wherein you might behold
Upon my heart your name lies wrote in letters made of gold
In letters made of gold my love, believe me when I say
You are the one that I will adore until my dying day
The blackest crow that ever flew would surely turn to white
If ever I prove false to you bright day will turn to night
Bright day would turn to night my love, the elements will mourn
If ever I prove false to you the seas will rage and burn
That Ole Train – lyrics J. Land & music J. Land & C. Taylor
All aboard we’re about to ride
That ole train keeps rollin’ on down the track
Keep your arms and legs inside
That ole train it ain’t never comin’ back
Pay your money to the man in the hat
It don’t matter where your seat is at
Come on boy, better shovel that coal
We’re on our way hear the whistle blow
Got a Brakeman, got an engineer
Tell your Mama not to shed no tears
Keep on rollin’ around that bend
We will get there but I don’t know when
Toot your whistle and blow that horn
Don’t you weep and don’t you mourn
Got our ticket for the Promised Land
Can’t you hear that Angel Band
The Righteous and the holy are Glory bound
All them sinners have salvation found
Where the Soul of A Man Never Dies – William A. Golden
To Canaan Land I’m on my way
Where the soul never dies
My darkest night will turn to day
Where the soul never dies
Dear friends there’ll be no sad farewells
There’ll ne no tear dimmer eyes
Where all is peace and joy and love
Where the soul of a man never dies
A rose is blooming there for me
And I will spend eternity
A love light shines across the foam
It shines to light the shore of home
My life will end in deathless sleep
And everlasting joys I’ll ream
I’m on my way to that fair land
Where there will be no parting hand
Bright Eyes – lyrics J. Land & music J. Land & C. Taylor
She called me from the station
She said she had to leave
Small Town had got her down
She went back for a funeral
Somebody in her family
Was goin’ in the ground
She grew up way too fast
They always called her Candy though
It wasn’t her name
Skin so milk you could see through
Blue veins like a road map
On the pillow hair aflame
Small Town won’t forget
Who you were
The Big Smoke doesn’t care
Who you wanna be
The last thing she said
When I saw her was
“There ain’t no home for me”
Wore her clothes like a warning
Her wardrobe a promise
That she would never keep
I already miss her smile and
The way she shrugged her shoulders
I never saw her weep
It was the middle of the night
In the morning I wondered
If it was all a dream
She went to sleep forever
All blue & alone
The silver in her veins
The Last Old Shovel – Alton Delmore
They buried him on the side of the mountain
There my Darlin’ lies beneath the ground
I stayed right there till they covered him over
And the last ol’ shovel’s laid down
Till the ol’ shovel’s laid down, laid down
Till the ol’ shovel’s laid down
I stayed right there and I cried and I cried
Till the ol’ shovel’s laid down
I think of him when it’s storming and raining
In that mountain far away
And I long to be laid by the side of my Darlin
There’ll be rest for me on that day
There’ll be rest for me on that day, that day
There’ll be rest for me on that day
And I long to be laid by the side of my Darlin
There’ll be rest for me on that day
So bury me where my true love lies sleeping
Where he lies in that cold and lonesome ground
I’ll find sweet Grace by the side of my Darlin
When that last ol’ shovel’s laid down
When that last ol’ shovel’s laid down, laid down
When that last ol’ shovel’s laid down
I’ll find sweet Grace by the side of my Darlin
When that last ol’ shovel’s laid down
The Little Black Train – A.P. Carter
There’s a little black train a coming set your business right
There’s a little black train a coming and it may be here tonight
Go tell that ballroom lady all dressed in the worldly pride
That death’s dark train is coming prepare to take a ride
God said to Hezikah a message from on high
You better set your house in order for you must surely die
He turned to the wall in weeping we see him here in tears
He got his business fixed all right
God spared him fifteen years
That poor young man in darkness cared not for the gospel light
‘Til suddenly he heard the whistle blow on the little black train, and sighed
We see that train with engine and one small baggage car
Your idle thoughts and wicked deeds will stop at the judgement bar
“Have mercy on me, Lord, please come and set me right”
Before he got his business fixed the train rolled in that night
Tea for two – lyrics J. Land & music J. Land & C. Taylor
Always knew you were the one
I was 12 you were 5
Your eyes were shining like the sun
We were the best of friends
Learning each other, growing closer
A love that never ends
You don’t remember
Your apologetic eyes
Now you don’t remember
And all I’ve got is your fading
Photographic smile
That’s our story begun
Our two lives a knot, so tight
That it could never be undone
Life a dance, we shared the song
Holding each others hearts and hands
A love so gentle and so strong
There’s our picture in a frame
Our faces bright and full of life
I can’t believe how much we’ve changed
That’s how we two became one
I’m not sure how to live
For you are here but you have gone
I’ll make tea for two
Although your chair is empty
There’s a cup for me, a cup for you
I don’t want to say goodbye.
Why Did You Leave Me, Dear – Jim Scott (Alton Delmore)
I had a sweet dream all about you
Last night as I lay in my bed
You kissed me so sweet in this vision
This morning I wished I was dead
O I’m feelin’ so lonesome, Lil Darlin
And wishin that you were here
O please hear me callin’, Lil Darlin
Why did you leave me, dear?
I haven’t got money or jewels
To offer an angel like you
But down in my heart I love you
With a love that will always be true
They say that you now love another
Oh how can you hurt me so
I’ve counted so surely upon you
My heart cannot stand such a blow
Today is the day that that I’m going
Down that lonesome road
That road that leads me to my master
To reap whatsoever I’ve sown
Lay Me Down – lyrics J. Land & music J. Land & C. Taylor
Lay me down
Lord, won’t you please, lay me down
Rest my soul
Lay me down, Lord, rest my soul
Take me home
Lord, won’t you please, take me home
Rest my bones
Take me home, Lord, rest my bones
Homeward bound
Was lost, now am found
Lay me down
Oh Lord
Lay me down, Lord, in your arms
River flows
Purifies my soul
Gentle and slow
River flows, Lord, gentle and slow
The Old Cross Road – Bill Monroe
Oh, my brother take this warning
Don’t let ol’ Satan hold your hand
You’d be lost in sin forever
You’d never reach the promised land
The old crossroad now is waiting
Which one are you going to take?
One leads down to destruction
The other to the pearly gate
One road leads up to heaven
The other goes down below
Jesus, our Savior, will protect you
He’ll guide you by the old crossroad
Soon your life will be over
You’ll have to face the old crossroad
Will you be ready then, my brother
To shun the one goes down below?
Ho Honey Ho – B. Osborne & T. Sutton
Apples in the summer time
Peaches in the fall
If I don’t get the girl I love
Won’t have none at all
Going to Rocky Island
Going when I’m gone
See my Candy darling
Ho honey ho
Get up on the mountain
Sow a little cane
Make a barrel of sorghum
Sweetin’ ole Liza Jane
Back clouds a risin’
Sure sign of rain
Get your old gray bonnet
See little Liza Jane
Slim Dime 