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Hills Of Roane County
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Stanley Brothers
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In the beautiful hills, way back in Roane Country
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There's where I roamed for many long years
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There's where my heart's been tending most ever
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That's where the first step of misfortune I made
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I was about thirty years when I courted and married
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Amanda Gilbraith I then called my wife
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But her brother stabbed me for some unknown reason
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Just three months later I'd taken Tom's life
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For twenty five years this whole world I rambled
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I went to old England to France and to Spain
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But I thought of my home way back in Roan Country
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I boarded a steamer and came back again
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I was captured and tried in the village of Kingston
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Not a man in the county would speak one kind word
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When the jury came in with the verdict next morning
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A lifetime in prison was the words that I heard
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When the train pulled out poor mother stood weepin
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And sister she sat alone with a sigh
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And the last words I heard was Willie God bless you
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Was Willie God bless you, God bless you, good bye
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Sweet Martha was grave but Corey was better
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There's better and worse, although you can see
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Boys when you write home from the prison in Nashville
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Place one of my songs in your letter for me
The Stanley Brothers, Rank Stranger
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