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John Hardy's wife
Kyle Carey
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John Hardy's Wife
Way on down in Mobile Town,
there's a standing hollow tree.
A rope they tied to its lowest branch,
when they set my John's soul free.
The wind blew cold and the people moaned,
when they cut his body down.
I'm just waiting for the next train through,
to take me from this town.
And oh, a man will ramble,
what's a girl to do?
And oh, a man will sin,
But Johnny I'll be true to you.
Johnny married me in '29,
and we built a house of pine.
Way up on a mountain's face,
rolling dice to pass the time.
In the winter when the wind blew cold,
playing cards around the stove,
he left me with an empty hand,
and a babe not one years old.
And oh, a man will ramble,
what's a girl to do?
And oh, a man will sin,
But Johnny I'll be true to you.
The law caught on to all his sinning,
and he's left this world behind.
I struck a match in the early morning,
and I burned our house of pine.
Gonna follow the North Star tracks,
Gonna break free of this life.
Find a place where they don't know my face,
where I'm not John Hardy's wife.
And oh, a man will ramble,
what's a girl to do?
And oh, a man will sin,
But Johnny I'll be true to you.