Rock Salt and Nails
Traditional
As Performed by Druha Trava
V1
By the banks of the river, where the willows hang down
And the wild birds all warble with a low moaning sound
Down in the hollow, where the waters run cold
It was there I first listened to the lies that she told.
V2
scale run
Now I lay on my bed and I can see her sweet face
The past I remember, time can not erase
The letter you wrote me, it was written in shame
And I know that your conscience still echoes my name
V3
E A E Now the nights
so long, your sorrows run deep
And nothing is worse, than a night without sleep
I’ll walk out alone and look at the sky
To empty to sing, to lonesome to cry
V4
If the ladies were blackbirds and the ladies were Thrushes
I’d lie there for hours, in the chilly cold marshes
If the ladies were squirrels, with a high bushy tails
I’d fill up my shotgun with rock salt and nails
Druha Trava (Second Grass) is a Czeck blugrass band with some international success. See