Trials & Troubles
Writers: Ketch Secor and Willie Watson
Album: O.C.M.S.
Tabbed by DAB

 

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Down the track this morning she did stroll 
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In an accident her foot got caught in a hole
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I’m going to tell you the truth 
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Die for a touch of that cold hand
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I’d be crying everytime the Southern makes it’s run 

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I’m going to buy them all 
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Cigarettes and chewing tobacco when I can 
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Trials and troubles are heavy for me 

She’s a ramblin’ gal 
Bound to leave her home 
I begged my brown skin 
Please don’t leave me alone 
I’m going to make amends 
Bound to cry to touch her hand 
I’m going to ride that line 
‘Till I see that black train come 

I’m going to buy them all 
Cigarettes and chewing tobacco when I can 
Trials and troubles are heavy for me 

Now people that Southern Pacific make her run 
From Chapel Hill to the state of Washington 
Round the bend at 40 miles
20 tons of loaded frieght a-comin' on 
Florscheim’s stuck and it won’t come out 
My good gal’s dead and gone 

I’m going to buy them all 
Cigarettes and chewing tobacco when I can 
Trials and troubles are heavy for me 

Trials and troubles are heavy for me