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Steve Earle - Taneytown Lyrics

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  • I went down to taneytown
  • I went down to taneytown
  • To see what I could see
  • My mama told me never go
  • But Im almost 22 years old
  • Sometimes I fear this holler swollow me
  • She ran off to gettysburg
  • Went off with that new beau of hers
  • I snuck off after dark
  • Long way down the county road
  • Stars were bright
  • The moon was low
  • Down to where the black top highway starts
  • Chorus:
  • I went down to taneytown
  • I went down to taneytown
  • I went down to see what I could see
  • I could see everybody stared at me
  • Youd think that they aint never seen
  • A colored boy before
  • They chunked at me at me
  • Called me names
  • Theyd have whipped me sure but the sheriff came
  • I slipped off through the dry goods store
  • I ran down division street
  • Some of them boys followed me
  • Down to the railroad track
  • Four of them and I caint fight
  • But I had my old randall knife
  • I cut that boy and I never did look back
  • Chorus
  • Cross the fields and woods I run
  • Like a bullet from a rabbit gun
  • Back home to my bed
  • Ma came in from gettysburg
  • Her and that new beau of hers
  • Boy you look like hell was all she said
  • Month went by without a word
  • Somebody down the holler heard
  • About that boy they hung
  • He begged those men to spare his life
  • But I dropped my bloody randall knife
  • He picked it up so they thought he was the one
  • I went down to taneytown
  • I went down to taneytown
  • I aint goin back there anymore

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