Collected by Mary C. Parler Sung by Mr. Sam Stewert
Transcribed by Frances Majors Muskogee, Oklahoma
February 21, 1959
Reel 265, Item 6
The Blue Ridge Mountains
I rode those prairies over,
I rode those prairies round.
I rode those prairies over,
I rode those prairies round.
Wherever I come to a big, fat beef,
Right there I shot him down,
God knows I've been all around this world.
Was for the charge of cattle stealing
I had to leave the range.
Was for the charge of cattle stealing
I had to leave the range.
God knows I've been all around this world.
Was in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Where I first took my stand.
Was in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Where I first took my stand,
Six-shooter buckled around me,
Winchester in my hand.
God knows I've been ail around this world.
Oh, where was I last winter, boys,
When the wind blowed chilly and cold?
Oh, where was I last winter, boys,
In the cold, cold frost and snows?
I'se climbing the Blue Ridge Mountains;
I'se hungry but damn nigh froze.
Cod knows I've been all around this world.
Was down in Bonnum, Texas,
Where they landed me in jail.
Was down in Bonnum, Texas,
Where they landed me in jail.
No one to go my security,
No one to go my bail.
Cod knows I've been all around this world.
The Blue Ridge Mountains (Cont'd)
Reel 265, Item 6 (Cont'd)
The jury found me guilty,
The clerk he wrote it down.
The jury found me guilty,
The clerk he wrote it down.
The judge he passed the sentence,
God knows I've been ail around this world.
Oh, go and tell my sweetheart
Tommorow's my hanging day.
Go and tell my sweetheart
Tomorrow's my hanging day.
If she don't want to see me
She'll have to stay away.
God knows I've been all around this world.
Oh, hang me, oh, hang me,
And I'll be dead and gone.
Hang me, oh, hang me,
And I'll be dead and gone.
Well, I don't mind your hanging,
But it's laying in the ground so long.
God knows I've been all around this world.
