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I saw two miners walking down the road, they had a negress in between them. |
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The dust and mire in the air made it mighty hard to see them. |
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Leading the train by the horses mane, a fourteen stallion team, |
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Then the earth did rise towards the skies to drink the rain of the season |
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I didn't have it in me but I was paid to lead. |
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I rode into a canyon and there what did I see? |
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A ghostly apparition was a' swinging from a tree. |
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The men bowed down toward the ground saying |
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"Glory to God be." |
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I've been lost once, I've been lost twice and |
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I'll probably be lost again. |
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Snow covered distant mountain looked like a purple bride. |
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Vultures circling in the air above something that died. |
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It was a tired little feller, lying on his side. |
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I asked him his opinion and this was his reply |
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He said "I've been lost once, I've been lost twice and I'll probably be lost again." |
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Oh brother, don't you heed the words of the Lord. |
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There ain't no better hell than this box of pine boards. |
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Oh children, don't say your prayers right, |
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There's nothing you can say to make your daddy's wrong right. |
