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In the Pines

from Demo by Bullfrog Pollywog

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traditional, arranged by nick turncoat for btk

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My darling girl, what have you done
to make me treat you so?
I've caused you to weep, I've caused you to mourn.
I've caused you to leave your home.

The longest train that I ever saw
went down that Georgia line.
The engine passed at six o'clock,
the cab flew by at nine.

Little girl, little girl, where'd you sleep last night?
Not even your mother knows
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
I shivered where the cold winds blow.

Little girl, little girl, don't you lie to me
Tell me where did you get that dress?
From a man in the mines, who sleeps in the pines
and wants you to look your best

I asked the captain for the time of day,
he said he'd thrown his watch away.
A long steel rail and short cross-tie.
I'm never going home.

Little girl, little girl, where'd you sleep last night?
Not even your mother knows
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
I shivered where the cold winds blow.

Her lover was a railroad man.
Died a mile, just out of town.
His head found with the engineer.
His body never was found.

The longest train I ever saw
went down that Georgia line,
and on that train, is a beautiful girl
the one that I used to call mine.

Little girl, little girl, where'd you sleep last night?
Not even your mother knows
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
I shivered where the cold winds blow.

Oh girl... oh girl. Where have you gone?
I walk these tracks all alone.
Now I just weep, and now I just mourn,
I wonder if I am that ghost.

The longest train that I ever saw
was 1,000 coal cars long,
and on that train went my girl,
and now my girl is gone.

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from Demo, released December 12, 2014

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Bullfrog Pollywog Lansing Charter Township, Michigan

rubber tramps, hitchhikers, trainhoppers, turncoats... singing traditional folk songs the way they were meant to be sang.

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