<br>Lyrics from Monroe Crossing's 'Across the Blue Mountains'



Monroe Crossing- Minnesota's Bluegrass Ambassadors - Lyrics from Monroe Crossing's 'Across the Blue Mountains'

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Hear and purchase a performance of this song on "Across the Blue Mountains" by Monroe Crossing from the Monroe Crossing website store.	ACROSS THE BLUE MOUNTAINS (Public Domain) One morning, one morning, one morning in May I heard a married man to a young girl say Go dress you up pretty Katie and come go with me across the Blue Mountains to the Allegheny I'll buy you a horse, love, and a saddle to ride I'll buy myself another to ride by your side We'll stop at every tavern, we'll drink when we're dry Across the Blue Mountains go my Katie and I Well, up spoke her mother, and angry was she then Saying,, Daughter, oh dear daughter, he's a married man And there's young men a'plenty more handsome than he Let him take his own wife to the Allegheny Oh mother, oh mother, he's the man of my heart And wouldn't it be a dreadful thing if we should have to part For I'd envy every woman who I'd ever see go cross the Blue Mountains to the Allegheny We left before daybreak on a buckskin and a roan Past tall shivering pines where mockingbirds moan Past dark cabin windows where eyes never see Across the Blue Mountains to the Allegheny
Hear and purchase a performance of this song on "Across the Blue Mountains" by Monroe Crossing from the Monroe Crossing website store.	THE RAIN WAS TURNING INTO SNOW (Bill Philipp & Matt Thompson, Inside Track Pub.) We loved each other in the springtime and the summer days were warm and bright The autumn winds that brought a change, dear I knew that something wasn't right CHORUS: Your love's grown colder than the winter Darling, this is how I know When you said you didn't love me the rain was turning into snow I can't believe you never loved me Your tender kisses wouldn't lie But now we've said goodbye and parted I'll never know the reason why CHORUS Someday, sweetheart, I might forget you and learn to love again somehow But as the years roll by, I realize your memory lingers even now CHORUS
Hear and purchase a performance of this song on "Across the Blue Mountains" by Monroe Crossing from the Monroe Crossing website store.	PATIENCE (Art Blackburn, Sloppy Bob's Music) If I can't come to find a way, dear a way to bear these pains and trials I will surely lose your love, dear a love I've known only a while Calmly and without complaint, love now must I endure this time ‘Til you can clearly see your heart, love ‘Til you can come to know your mind CHORUS: The ground we have broken, seeds we have sewn can grow to be the most fulfilling love we've ever known You say you need a while to think, some time to be alone But patience is a virtue I have never known Your love is worth each sacrifice, dear that I will ever have to make For all good things, my little darlin' will come in time to those who wait Oh, and how you make me feel, love when you're lyin' here with me I know our love will bloom forever All our lives we'll happy be CHORUS
Hear and purchase a performance of this song on "Across the Blue Mountains" by Monroe Crossing from the Monroe Crossing website store.	TWO MEN A PRAYIN' (listed as Public Domain, author may be Randall Hylton) CHORUS: There were two men a'prayin', two men a'prayin' Two men a'prayin' to the Lord One was a sinner, one was Pharisee Two men a'prayin' to the Lord The Pharisee was proud, he shouted out loud Dear God, there's no dirt upon my hands I'm perfect, I'm strong, I've never done wrong I'm thankful I'm not like the sinner man CHORUS The sinner looked down with his face to the ground ashamed to even lift his tremblin' voice I'm guilty, Lord, he cried, I'm weak down inside Have mercy on me for I am lost CHORUS The bible says the Lord listened to both prayers He listened and He gave it all some thought And the Pharisee's fate like it was before he prayed but the sinner found a place in God's own heart CHORUS
Hear and purchase a performance of this song on "Across the Blue Mountains" by Monroe Crossing from the Monroe Crossing website store.	ALL MY LIFE (Pat Donohue, Salspot Music) You can say goodbye, you can close the door You can drift ‘til the tide washes you ashore You can throw me out, you can be untrue You can break my heart, but I'll still love you CHORUS: And I want you to know you can count on me Like each moment in time, it will always be For as long as I live and with all my might All that I have to give, all my love all my life On the day you came how the sun did shine and you had no name, so I gave you mine And the world will turn, many things you'll see but you'll never learn what you mean to me CHORUS When the days get long and the nights grow cold and the lonesome wind tries to chill your soul You can call my name, you can hold my hand I have known the same, I will understand CHORUS
Hear and purchase a performance of this song on "Across the Blue Mountains" by Monroe Crossing from the Monroe Crossing website store.	NAIL THAT CATFISH TO A TREE (Steve Rosen)
Hear and purchase a performance of this song on "Across the Blue Mountains" by Monroe Crossing from the Monroe Crossing website store.	FRIENDSHIP'S ROAD (Art Blackburn, Sloppy Bob's Music) Friendship is a chain of gold Shaped in God's all-perfect mold Each link a smile, a laugh, a tear A grip of the hand, a word of cheer As steadfast as the ages roll Binding closer soul to soul No matter how far or heavy the load Sweet is the journey on friendship's road Jesus is a friend for life Guiding through all toil and strife No matter how far or heavy the load Sweet is the journey on friendship's road Sweet is the journey on friendship's road Sweet is the journey on friendship's road Sweet is the journey on friendship's road Sweet is the journey on friendship's road
Hear and purchase a performance of this song on "Across the Blue Mountains" by Monroe Crossing from the Monroe Crossing website store.	FROG (Lisa Fuglie, Lisa Fuglie Music) I wonder what it's like to be a tree Face up to the sky, grass against my knees Growing home, already home I wonder what it's like to be a bug Such a short life, I wonder what it's like to be a hair brushed from your shoulder Oh, glory be. I wonder what it's like to be mud To have a skeleton of pennies Pigs laughing above me I wonder what it's like to be a frog On my own cool pad, in my own cool bog with mosquitoes that taste like marshmallows I wonder what it's like to be a sunflower Following the sun, flowering when the time is right, what a nice life Oh, glory by Glory be for mystery
Hear and purchase a performance of this song on "Across the Blue Mountains" by Monroe Crossing from the Monroe Crossing website store.	DOWN IN THE WILLOW GARDEN (Public Domain) Down in the willow garden where me and my true love did meet It was there we went a'courtin' my love fell off to sleep I had a bottle of burgundy wine My true love, she did not know It was there I murdered that dear little girl down on the banks below I drew my saber through her and it was a bloody knife I threw her into the river and it was an awful sight My father often he told me that money would set me free If I but murdered that dear little girl whose name was Rose Connolly Now he stands at his cabin door wipin' his tear dimmed eyes Gazin' on his own dear son upon the gallows high My race is run beneath the sun The devil is waiting for me For I did murder that dear little girl whose name was Rose Connolly
Hear and purchase a performance of this song on "Across the Blue Mountains" by Monroe Crossing from the Monroe Crossing website store.	LETTER FROM MY DARLIN' (Bill Monroe, Unichappel Music Inc., BMI) I can't answer her letter for she left me no address You should know my little darlin' You left my poor heart in distress CHORUS: I got a letter from my darlin' She said she hated to go It broke my heart, the words she wrote me She closed by sayin', I love you so She wrote the words she knew would hurt me She said I never could be true I've tried, I've tried my little darlin' to prove my love was just for you CHORUS The letter meant goodbye forever though we'll have each other's heart Our love will fade away in sadness Precious one, why did we have to part CHORUS
Hear and purchase a performance of this song on "Across the Blue Mountains" by Monroe Crossing from the Monroe Crossing website store.	ANNABELLE (Gillian Welch, Irving Music Inc./Say Uncle Music, BMI) We lease twenty acres and one Ginny mule from the Alabama trust Half of the cotton, third of the corn we get a handful of dust CHORUS: We cannot have all things to please us no matter how we try Until we've all gone to Jesus we can only wonder why I had a daughter, called her Annabelle She's the apple of my eye Tried to give her something like I never had I didn't want to ever hear her cry CHORUS And when I'm dead and buried, I'll take a hard life of tears from every day I've ever known Anna's in the churchyard, she's got no life at all She only got these words on a stone CHORUS
Hear and purchase a performance of this song on "Across the Blue Mountains" by Monroe Crossing from the Monroe Crossing website store.	TALLAHASSEE (Bill Monroe, Unichappel Music Inc., BMI)
Hear and purchase a performance of this song on "Across the Blue Mountains" by Monroe Crossing from the Monroe Crossing website store.	BEFORE YOU LEFT ME BEHIND (Art Blackburn, Sloppy Bob's Music) Thought of you again, you've been on my mind Been so all alone, I'm just marking time Loneliness is so unkind since you left me behind I know you think you did things you thought were best I'd give everything to make it one year less The days when love was blind before you left me behind CHORUS: I never claimed to be no rich man Swear I didn't tell you any lies Love, it came to us so easy Holdin' you there by my side before you left me behind Heart's been so empty, time's eased my pain Friends say I'll find true love some day Someone who'll never remind me of the one that left me behind Thought of you again, you've been on my mind Been so all alone, I'm just marking time Loneliness is so unkind since you left me behind CHORUS

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