歌词
Son said my mother when I was knee high
You need of clothes to cover you and not a rag have I
There's nothing in the house to make a boy's britches
Nor shears to cut a cloth with nor thread to take stitches
There's nothing in the house but a leaf end of rye
And the harp with a with the woman's head nobody will by and she began to cry
That was in the early fall and when came the late fall
Son she said the sight of you makes your mother's blood crawl
Little skinny shoulder blades stickin' through your clothes
And where you get a jacket from God above knows
It's lucky for me lad your daddy's in the ground
And can't see the way I let his son go around and she made a queer sound
That was in the late fall when the winter came
I'd not a pair of bridges nor a shirt to my name
I couldn't go to school or out of doors to play
And all the other little boys passed our way
Son said my mother come climb into my lap
And I'll chave your little knees while you take a nap
And oh but we were silly for half an hour or more
Me with my long legs draggin' on the floor
I rocked rocked rocked to a mother goose rhyme
Oh but we were happy for half an hour's time
But there was I a great boy and what would folks say
To hear my mother singin' me to sleep all day in such a daft way
Men say the winter was bad that year fuel was scarce and food was dear
A wind with a wolf's head howled about our door
And we burned up the chairs and sat upon the floor
All that was left us was a chair we couldn't break
And the harp with the woman's head nobody would take for song or pity sake
The night before Christmas I cried with the cold
I cried myself to sleep like a two year old
And in the deep night I felt my mother rise
And stare down upon me with love in her eyes
I saw my mother sitting on the one good chair
A light falling on her face from I couldn't tell where
Looking nineteen and not a day older
And the harp with the woman's head leaned against her shoulder
Her thin fingers moving in the thin tall strings
Were weave weave weaving wonderful things
Many bright threads from where I couldn't see
Were running through the harp strings rapidly
And gold threads whistlin' through my mother's hands
I saw the web grow and the pattern expand
She wove a child's jacket and when it was done
She laid it on the floor and wove another one
She wove a red cloak so regal to see
She's made it for a king's son I said and not for me but I knew it was for me
She wove a pair of bridges and quicker than that
She wove a pair of boots a little cocked hat
She wove a pair of mittens she wove a little blouse
She wove all night in the still cold house
She sang as she worked and the harp strings spoke
But her voice never faltered and the thread never broke
But when I awoke there sat my mother
With the harp against her shoulder lookin' nineteen and not a day older
A smile about her lips and a light about her head
And her hands in the harp strings frozen dead
And piled up beside her toppling to the skies
Were the clothes of a king's son just my size
专辑信息
1.Rock Island Line
2.I Walk the Line
3.Walking The Blues
4.I Got Stripes
5.You Dreamer You
6.Loading Coal
7.Lumberjack
8.Dorraine Of Ponchartrain
9.Going To Memphis
10.Slow Rider
11.Boss Jack
12.The Fable Of Willie Brown
13.Second Honeymoon
14.When Papa Played The Dobro
15.Ballad Of the Harpweaver
16.Old Doc Brown
17.Seasons Of My Heart
18.Smiling Bill McCall
19.I Feel Better All Over
20.I Couldn't Keep From Crying
21.Time Changes Everything
22.I'd Just Be Fool Enough (To Fall)
23.Transfusion Blues
24.My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You
25.I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
26.Just One More
27.Why Do You Punish Me (For Loving You)
28.I Will Miss You When You Go
29.He'll Understand And Say Well Done
30.I Got Shoes
31.God Must Have My Fortune Laid Away
32.When I've Learned
33.Honky-Tonk Girl
34.Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
35.Taller Than Trees
36.If We Never Meet Again
37.I Won't Have To Cross Jordan Alone
38.When He Reached Down His Hand for Me
39.When I Take My Vacation In Heaven
40.These Hands
41.Cry! Cry! Cry!
42.Folsom Prison Blues
43.My God Is Real (Yes, God Is Real)
44.Get Rhythm
45.Home Of the Blues
46.Guess Things Happen That Way
47.Frankie's Man, Johnny
48.Run Softly, Blue River
49.That's Enough
50.That's All Over
51.The Troubadour
52.I'd Rather Die Young
53.Pickin' Time
54.Shepherd Of My Heart
55.Suppertime
56.Oh What A Dream
57.One More Ride
58.I Still Miss Someone
59.Don't Take Your Guns To Town
60.Fool's Hall Of Fame
61.Mama's Baby
62.Cold Shoulder
63.I'll Remember You
64.It Was Jesus
65.Lead Me Gently Home
66.Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
67.I Call Him
68.I Saw A Man
69.Snow In His Hair
70.Are All The Children In
71.God Will
72.He'll Be a Friend
73.It Was Jesus
74.Five Feet High And Rising
75.The Man On the Hill
76.Lead Me Father
77.The Old Account
78.These Things Shall Pass
79.I Want To Go Home
80.Drink To Me
81.Clementine
82.Hank And Joe And Me
83.The Great Speckle Bird
84.The Caretaker
85.Old Apache Squaw
86.My Grandfather's Clock
87.Don't Step On Mother's Roses
88.It Could Be You (Instead Of Him)