Misc Originals – Bruce E Ring - Caney Ridge (Guitar)
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[Verse 1]
G C G A D They carried my daddy up to caney ridge, we stood shivering all around G C G D G They folded the flag and they played the taps and laid him in that cold cold ground.
[Chorus]
G C G A D G C G I'm going back up to caney ridge, I'm going back someday, I'm going back up to caney ridge D G back to where my daddy lays.
[Verse 2]
G C G A D Daddy made a living digging clinchfield coal, he traded at the company store, G C G D G seven of us lived in a three room shack,the coal train ran by our front door.
[Chorus]
G C G A D G C G I'm going back up to caney ridge, I'm going back someday, I'm going back up to caney ridge D G back to where my daddy lay.
[Verse 3]
G C G A G I never had to dig any clinchfield coal, their was nothing there for me. G C G D G The old folks have all gone to caney ridge, nothing left but memories.
[Chorus]
G C G A D I'm going back up to caney ridge, I'm going back some day. G C G D G I'm going back up to caney ridge, and caney ridge is where I'll stay, G D G and caney ridge is where I'll stay.