Lester Flatt feat. Earl Scruggs - Over the Hills to the Poorhouse Lyrics

Lyrics Over the Hills to the Poorhouse - Earl Scruggs , Lester Flatt



Over The Hill To The Poor House
1. Oh how can it be they have driven
Their father so helpless and old
Oh God may their crimes be forgiven
To perish out here in the cold
Chorus:
I'm old I'm helpless and feeble
And the days of my youth have gone by
And it's over the hill to the poor house
I must wander alone there to die
2. Long years since Mary was taken
My faithful affectionate wife
Since then I've been alone and forsaken
The light has died out of my life
Chorus:
3. I gave them the house they were born in
A deed to the farm and more
I gave them the place that they lived on
And now I am turned from its door
4. Oh me on the doorstep up yonder
I've set with my babe's on my knee
No father so happy or fonder
Than I of my little ones three



Writer(s): LESTER FLATT, E. LILLY


Lester Flatt feat. Earl Scruggs - Bear Family Box 1948-1959

1 God Loves His Children
2 Pray for the Boys
3 I'd Rather Be Alone
4 Someone Took My Place with You
5 Mother Prays Loud in Her Sleep
6 That Old Book of Mine
7 Till the End of the World Rolls Around
8 Old Fashioned Preacher
9 I'm Gonna Sleep with One Eye Open
10 Randy Lynn Rag
11 On My Mind
12 It Won't Be Long
13 No Mother in This World
14 Mama's and Daddy's Little Girl
15 I Won't Be Hanging Around
16 I'll Never Shed Another Tear
17 Let Those Brown Eyes Smile at Me
18 Reunion in Heaven
19 Is There Room for Me
20 Shuckin' the Corn
21 Six White Horses
22 What's Good for You
23 Joy Bells
24 If I Should Wander Back Tonight
25 I'm Waiting to Hear You Call Me Darling
26 I'm Head over Heels in Love
27 Will the Roses Blooom
28 Take Me in a Lifeboat
29 Pain in My Heart
30 The Old Home Town
31 Pike County Breakdown
32 My Little Girl in Tennessee
33 So Happy I'll Be
34 No Mother or Dad
35 Why Don't You Tell Her So?
36 My Cabin in Caroline
37 I'll Never Love Another
38 I'll Stay Around
39 Jimmie Brown, The Newsboy
40 Thinking About You
41 My Darling's Last Goodbye
42 We Can't Be Darlings Anymore
43 Over the Hills to the Poorhouse
44 I've Lost You
45 He Took Your Place
46 I'm Working on a Road
47 Somehow Tonight
48 I'm Lonesome and Blue
49 You Put Me on My Feet
50 Someone You Have Forgotten
51 Who Knows Right From Wrong
52 Ground Speed
53 Jesus Savior Pilot Me
54 Heaven
55 Foggy Mountain Chimes
56 Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky
57 Foggy Mountain Special
58 Before I Met You
59 Bubbling in My Soul
60 Crying Alone
61 A Hundred Years from Now
62 Give Me the Flowers While I'm Living
63 Dear Old Dixie
64 Dim Lights, Thick Smoke
65 Come Back Darling
66 Bouquet in Heaven
67 A Million Years in Glory
68 Flint Hill Special
69 Why Did You Wonder?
70 Brother, I'm Getting Ready to Go
71 Get in Line Brother
72 Earl's Breakdown
73 Don't Get Above My Raising
74 Crying My Hear Out Over You
75 Building on Sand
76 Iron Curtain
77 I'll Take the Blame
78 I'll Take the Blame (Previously Unissued)




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