The Carter Family - John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man Lyrics

Lyrics John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man - The Carter Family



John Hardy was a desperate little man
He carried two guns every day
He shot a man on the West Virginia line
And you ought to see John Hardy getting away
John Hardy got to the east stone bridge
He thought that he would be free
And up stepped a man and took him by his arm
Saying Johnny, walk along with me
He sent for his poppy and his mommy too
To come and go his bail
But money won't go a murdering case
And they locked John Hardy back in jail
John Hardy had a pretty little girl
That dress that she wore was blue
As she came skipping through the old jail hall
Saying Poppy, I been true to you
John Hardy had another little girl
That dress that she wore was red
She followed John Hardy to his hanging ground
Saying Poppy, I would rather be dead
"I've been to the east and I've been to the west
I've been this wide world around
I've been to the river and I've been baptized
And it's now I'm on my hanging ground"
John Hardy walked out on his scaffold high
With his loving little wife by his side
And the last words she heard poor John-O say
"I'll meet you in that sweet bye and bye"



Writer(s): A.p. Carter


The Carter Family - Heroes of the Big Country - The Carter Family
Album Heroes of the Big Country - The Carter Family
date of release
26-03-2012

1 Wildwood Flower
2 Bear Creek Blues
3 Cold Watch And Chain
4 Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone
5 Over the Garden Wall
6 I Found You Among The Roses
7 Wabash Cannonball
8 Little Darling Pal Of Mine
9 Lonesome For You
10 Fifty Miles of Elbow Room
11 East Virginia Blues
12 Buddies In The Saddle
13 Lonesome Valley
14 On the Sea of Galilee
15 Worried Man Blues
16 Lonesome Homesick Blues
17 Are You Tired of Me, My Darling
18 I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
19 I'm Working On a Building
20 Something Got a Hold of Me
21 Hello Stranger
22 Keep On the Firing Line
23 I Have An Aged Mother
24 There's No Hiding Place Down There
25 Little Poplar Log House On the Hill
26 Home By the Sea
27 Answer To Weeping Willow
28 Coal Miner's Blues
29 Rambling Boy
30 It'll Aggravate Your Soul
31 John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man
32 Girl On the Greenbrier Shore
33 My Dixie Darling
34 I Never Will Marry
35 I'll Be Home Some Day
36 Bury Me Under The Weeping Willows
37 The Mountains of Tennessee
38 Waves On The Sea
39 Bonny Blue Eyes
40 Single Girl, Married Girl
41 Hello Central Give Me Heaven
42 I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
43 No Depression (In Heaven)
44 You Are My Flower
45 Keep On The Sunny Side
46 Anchored In Love
47 You're Gonna Be Sorry You Let Me Down
48 Longing for Old Virginia
49 If One Won't Another Will
50 Diamonds In the Rough




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