Johnny Cash - New Cut Road lyrics

Coleman Bonner was a fiddle playing fool
He's a backwoods rounder and
A breaker of mules
Coleman Bonner's got a wore out bow
He's been playing all day down
The new cut road
Coleman's little sister said you
Better act right Coleman
Daddy's gone to Louisville he'll
Be back tonight
He's going to get another wagon and
A good pair of mules
And we going to move to Texas
We just waiting on you
Coleman's daddy pulled up in the yard
He said pack up your lives
Kids it's getting too hard
Kentucky's alright but there's
Too many people
Well just the other day I thought
I saw a church steeple
Coleman said daddy don't you worry bout me
I'm going to stay here in Kentucky
Till the day I d
I'm going to drink that sourmash I'm
Going to race that mare
And find that woman with the fox red hair
Now you all been moving west since
The day you got married
Well I'm getting off the wagon daddy
I'm too old to be carried
Going to stay here in Kentucky
Where the bluegrass grow
I'm going to play it all night
Down the new cut road
Coleman's daddy said now what's
It all comn' to
Young people these days they just
As stubborn as mules
You can't make him go naw
He's too old for that
It's that damned ole fiddle
And that bolder hat
Coleman's mama said let the boy stay
Because he's raised up solid he
Can find his own way
But as for me honey I'm with you
I always thought Kentucky was
Just passing through
Coleman's little sister then she
Started into a crying
And his daddy shook his head
For the very last time
Coleman's mama said somebody's got to do it
Wouldn't be no Kentucky less you
Didn't stick to it Coleman
Coleman Bonner stood on the
Porch of that cabin
Watched them all go to Texas
In a covered wagon
He pulled out his fiddle and
He rosined up his bow
And he played a little tune
Called the new cut road