A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection lyrics

Baby mine, don't you cry
Baby mine, dry your eyes
Rest your head close to my heart
Never to part, baby of mine.

Little one when you play
Don't you mind what they say
Let those eyes sparkle and shine
Never a tear, baby of mine.

If they knew sweet little you
They'd end up loving you two
All of those people who scold you
What they'd give just for the right to hold you.

How pale is the sky that brings forth the rain
As the changing of seasons prepares me again
For the long bitter nights and the wild winter's day
My heart has grown cold my love stored away
My heart has grown cold my love stored away.

I've been to the mountain left my tracks in the snow
Where souls have been lost and the walking wounded go
I've taken the pain no girl should endure

(James Taylor & Alison Krauss)

I've had nothing but sorrow
Since you said we were through
There's no hope for tomorrow
How's the world treating you.

Every sweet thing that matters
Has been broken in two
All my dreams have been shattered
How's the world treating you.

Got no plans for next Sunday
Got no plans for today
Every day is blue Monday
Every day you're away.

The wind is blowing down the quiet river
A shining road that carries you alone
Baby boy my love will last forever
If you're to live, I must give you up to God.

I know our God will guide, protect and keep you
Teach you faith and hold you by the heart
Though your mother's heart is broken by your leaving her
Father knows just who he is and who you are.

In the spring of 1856 with the snow still on the ground
Two little boys were lost in the mountains above the town
The father went out hunting the boys had stayed behind
While mother tended to her chores they wandered from her side.

The two had gone to follow him and lost their way instead
By dusk the boys had not been found and fear had turned to dread

Alison Krauss & John Waite

(John)
I've spent my life
Lookin for you
Findin' my way
Wasn't easy to do
But I knew there was you
All the while
And it's been worth
Every mile

So lay down beside me
Love me and hide me
And kiss all the hurtin'
Of this world away
Hold me so close
That I feel your heart beat
And don't ever wander away

(Alison)
Mornings and evenings
All were the same

Alison Krauss & John Waite

Every time I think of you I always catch my breath
And I'm still standing here and you're miles away
And I'm wondering why you left and there's a storm that's raging
Through my frozen heart tonight.

I hear your name in certain circles
And it always makes me smile
I spend my time thinkin' about you
And it's almost driving me wild.

And there's a heart that's breaking

Come all ye young fellas
That handle a gun
Beware of night rambling
By the setting of the sun.

And beware of an accident
That happened of late
To young Molly Ban
And sad was her fate.

She was going to her uncles
When a shower came on
She went under a green bush
The shower to shun.

Her white apron wrapped around her
He took her for a swan
But a hush and sigh
Was his own Molly Ban.

Way back in the mountains
Way back in the hills
There used to live a mountianeer
They called him Fiddlin' Will
He could play most anything
And some say he could sing
But the one thing that he liked to do best
Was sawing on the strings..

So get out the fiddle
And rosin up the bow
Look at ol' Will a pattin' his toe
we'll make music til the rafters ring
All that pickin' and a sawin on the string.

Little yellow house sittin' on a hill
That is where he lived
That is where he died
Every Sunday morning
Hear the weeping willows cry.

Two children born
A beautiful wife
Four walls and livin's all he needed in life
Always giving, never asking back
I wish I had a simple love like that.

I want a simple love like that
Always giving, never askin' back
For when I'm in my final hour lookin' back

Will, I recall his parting words
Must I accept his fate
Or take myself far from this place
I thought I heard a black bell toll
A little bird did sing
Man has no choice
When he wants every thing

We'll rise above the scarlet tide
That trickles down through the mountain
And separates the widow from the bride

Man goes beyond his own decision
Gets caught up in the mechanism

She put him out
Like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart
He spent his whole life tryin' to forget
We watched him drink his pain away
A little at a time
But he never could get drunk enough
To get her off his mind
Until the night.

He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
Life is short but this time it was bigger

Album: Cold Mountain
Track:

Ain't gonna marry in the fall
Ain't gonna marry in the spring
For you're in love
With a pretty little girl
Who wears a diamond ring.

You're just a country boy
Money have you none
But you've got silver
In the stars
Gold in the morning sun
Gold in the morning sun.

Never gonna kiss the ruby red lips
Of the prettiest girl in town
Never gonna ask her if she'll marry you
She'd only turn you down.