Lyrics Language: English Song writer/composer(s): Robert Earl Jr Keen
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Robert Earl KeenThe Bluegrass Widow Lyrics:
It's been five years come this autumn, she
remembers well the day The day the fever got him,
and took him far away Far away from always knowing
that the love they shared was true Far away the
fiddler's bowing, the grass forever blue
It was in the dead of winter when her man first
caught the chill And he said he heard the angels
singing "Cabin on the Hill" Through the
springtime he was groaning "The good times are
past and gone" By the summer she was moaning
"Old lover please come home"
Chorus: Now she stands out in the midnight in the
moonlight all aglow She prays to Carter Stanley
"Won't you please tell Bill Monroe Rather be
in some dark hollow or some dark deep shady grove
Than to be a bluegrass widow"
Spoken word break: I started listening to
bluegrass music in Bryan Duckworth's rust red
1970 Ford Maverick. Had an eight track tape deck
and an eight track tape of Bill Monroe's
Greatest Hits. We used to skip second period
chemistry and go over to the Shamrock station
across the street from the high school and get a
case of Texas Pride beer. Charge it on my dad's
credit card and get 'em to write it up as oil so
dad never knew the difference. Then we'd ride
around and drink Texas Pride, listen to Bill
Monroe. Soon we got to be bluegrass experts. And
we'd stop in another Shamrock station and get
another Texas Pride case, drink that and listen to
the Stanley Brothers and then we'd go get a tape
of Jim and Jesse and it was on to the Kentucky
Colonels and Mack Wiseman and the New Grass
Revival, Peter Rowan, and finally I got the
brilliant idea one day to take all the greatest
bluegrass song titles in the world and string
'em together to make this song right here, The
Bluegrass Widow. Quite possibly the worst
bluegrass song ever written.
I did this in tribute to the Front Porch Boys,
which was a bluegrass band I was in in College
Station, Texas. We were a little four piece band,
we played weddings and parties and out on the
porch and beer joints and one weekend on a handful
of cheap amphetamines, we decided to go to
Crockett, Texas. We entered the International
Bluegrass Band Competition and took second place.
We could play faster than anybody in the
competition. The other two bands took first and
third, respectively. I met some friends and went
off into the night separated from the Front Porch
Boys and met back up with them in the cold, gray
light of dawn, as the bluegrass songs say. They
were standing underneath a giant pine tree there
in Crockett singing the rudest, most grotesque,
nastiest bluegrass songs you've ever heard in
your life. I'm talking about the kind of song
where not only is the character in the song dead
by the end of the song, but he's been
dismembered as well. And the Front Porch Boys
stopped and looked up at me just long enough to
say, "We're taking bluegrass music where
it's never been before. And we're not taking
you with us 'cuz you don't have that high and
lonesome sound that bluegrass music requires."
Well, I'm not one to fight failure. I packed up
my stuff and left. The Front Porch Boys broke up
three days later when they realized I owned the PA
system.
"Will you miss me when I'm gone?" were his
final words to her "Darlin' think of what
you've done," then replied his Knoxville girl
And the leaves had started turning when his mind
began to fail Then he broke down in a breakdown,
now she wears a long black veil.
And she stands out in the midnight in the
moonlight all aglow She prays to Carter Stanley
"Won't you please tell Bill Monroe Rather be
in some dark hollow or some dark deep shady grove
Than to be a bluegrass widow"
And she stands out in the midnight in the
moonlight all aglow She prays to Carter Stanley
"Won't you please tell Bill Monroe Rather be
in some dark hollow or some dark deep shady grove
Than to be a bluegrass widow"
Lyrics: The Bluegrass Widow, Robert Earl Keen [end]
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