Pete Seeger - The Three Butchers Songtexte

Songtexte The Three Butchers - Pete Seeger




Johnstone he was riding along
Fast as he could ride
When he thought he heard a woman
He heard a woman cry
Johnstone getting off his horse
Searching the woods all round
When he came upon a woman,
With her hair bent to the ground
Woman,dearest woman
Who brought you here for a span
Who had brought you here this morning
With yer hair bent to the ground
Oh it were three bold and struggling men
With swords gleaming on
Who that brought me here this morning
With me hair pinned to the ground
Well, Johnstone being a man of his own
Being a man and bold
He has taken off his overcoat
To cover her from the cold
Johnstone getting on his horse
The woman gets on behind
They rode down that lonesome highway
Their fortune for to find
They were riding all alone
Fastest they could ride
When she threw her fingers to her lips
And gave three shivering cries
And out sprang three bold and strugling men
With swords gleaming on
Uhhh,that commanded Johnstone
Commanded him to stand
I'll all stop them,said Johnstone
I'll stop,then said he
For I never was in all my life
Afraid of any three
Johnstone killing two of them
Not watching the woman behind
While he was after the other one
She stabbed him from behind
Day was free and a market day
People all passing by
Could that saw awfull murder
Could have seen poor Johnstone die




Pete Seeger - American Folk Anthology
Album American Folk Anthology
Veröffentlichungsdatum
29-05-2009

1 Pretty Polly
2 The Three Butchers
3 John Henry
4 The Titanic Disaster
5 Fair Margaret and Sweet William
6 John Hardy
7 The Golden Vanity
8 Gypsy Davy
9 The Farmer's Curst Wife
10 Down in Carlisle
11 St.James Hospital
12 Jesse James
13 Barbara Allen
14 Sioux Indians
15 Tex-I-An Boys
16 Hold the Fort
17 Ground Hog
18 The Derby Ram
19 Down In the Valley
20 Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
21 The Blue Tail Fly
22 Yankee Doodle
23 Cielito Lindo
24 Wabash Cannonball
25 So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
26 Skip to My Lou
27 The Wagoner's Lad
28 The Wreck of the Old '97
29 Old Dan Tucker
30 I Ride an Old Paint
31 Frankie and Johnnie
32 On Top of Old Smokey
33 The Big Rock Candy Mountain
34 Home On the Range
35 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
36 She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
37 Peg and Awl
38 The Blind Fiddler
39 Buffalo Skinners
40 Eight-Hour Day
41 Hard Times in the Mill
42 Roll Down the Line
43 Hayseed Like Mine
44 The Farmer Is the Man
45 Come All You Hardy Miners
46 Hi Lies In the American Land
47 Casey Jones
48 Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine
49 Cotton Mill Colic
50 Seven Cent Cotton & Forty Cent Meat
51 Mill Mother's Lament
52 Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch
53 Beans, Bacon, and Gravy
54 The Death of Harry Simms
55 Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
56 Ballad of Barney Graham
57 My Children are Seven in Number
58 Raggedy
59 Pittsburgh Town
60 Sixty Per Cent




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