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Emmylou Harris
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Coleman Bonner was a fiddle playin' fool
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He's 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' all day down the new cut road
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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 gonna move to Texas we just waitin' on you
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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 all right but there's too many people
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Just the other day I thought I saw a church steeple
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Coleman said daddy don't you worry about me
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I'm gonna stay here in Kentucky until the day I die
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I'm gonna drink that sourmash and gonna race that mare
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And find that woman with the fox 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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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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Coleman's mama said let the boy stay
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He's raised up solid and he can find his own way
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But as for me honey I'm with you
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I always thought Kentucky was just passin' through
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Coleman's little sister then she started into a 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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Wouldn't be no Kentucky less you didn't stick to it
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Coleman Booner 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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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
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