Emmylou Harris – New Cut Road (Guitar)

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Now Coleman Bonner was a fiddle playin' fool

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A backwoods rounder and a breaker of mules

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Coleman Bonner's got a wore out bow

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He's been playin' two days down new cut road

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Now Coleman's little sister said, "You better act right

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Daddy's gone to Louisville, he'll be back tonight

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He's gonna get another wagon and a good pair of mules

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And we're gonna move to Texas, we just waitin' on you"

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Now Coleman's daddy pulled up in the yard

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He said, "Pack up your lives kids it's gettin' too hard

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Kentucky's alright but there's too many people

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Why just the other day I thought I saw a church steeple"

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Now Coleman said, "Daddy, don't you worry 'bout me

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I'm gonna stay here in Kentucky till the day I die

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I'm gonna drink that sour mash, I'm gonna race that mare

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Hey, I got me a woman with the foxy red hair"

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"Now you all been movin' west since the day you got married

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Well I'm gettin' off the wagon, daddy, I'm too old to be carried

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Gonna stay here in Kentucky where the bluegrass grow

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I'm gonna play it all night down the new cut road"

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Now Coleman's daddy said, "Now what's it all comin' to?

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Young people these days are just as stubborn as mules

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You can't make him go, he's too old for that

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It's that damned old fiddle and that bowler hat"

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Now Coleman's mama said, "Let the boy stay

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'Cause he's raised up solid, he can find his own way

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But as for me honey I'm with you

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Yeah, I always thought Kentucky was just passin' through"

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Now Coleman's little sister was started in cryin'

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And his daddy shook his head for the very last time

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Coleman's mama said, "Somebody's gotta do it

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Lord there wouldn't be no Kentucky if you didn't stick to it"

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Coleman Bonner stood on the porch of that cabin

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Watched 'em all go to Texas in a covered wagon

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And he pulled out his fiddle and he rosined up his bow

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And he played a little tune called "The New Cut Road"