I found the sweet haven of sunshine at last
And Jesus abiding above
His dear arms around me are lovingly cast
And sweetly he tells his love

The tempest is o’er
(The danger, the tempest forever is o’er)
I’m safe evermore
(My anchor is holding I’m safe ever more)
What gladness what rapture is mine
The danger is past
(The water’s receding, the danger is past)
I’m anchored at last
(I’m feeling so happy I’m anchored at last)
I’m anchored in love divine

He saw me in danger and loving like he
To pilot my starving unsold
Sweet peace he has spoken and blessed his dear name
The billows no longer roar

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His love should control me through life and in death
Completely I'll trust to the end
I'll praise him each hour of my last fleeting breath
Shall sing of my soul's best friend

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Way up on Bear Creek, watching the sun go down
Way up on Bear Creek, watching the sun go down
It makes me feel like
I’m on my last go round.

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The water on Bear Creek, it tastes like cherry wine
The water on Bear Creek, it tastes like cherry wine
You take one drink of it,
You’re drinking it all the time.

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If you stay on Bear Creek, you’ll get like Jesse James
If you stay on Bear Creek, you’ll get like Jesse James
You’ll take two old pistols
And hold up that Bear Creek train

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I’m going high, high up on some lonesome hill
I’m going high, high up on some lonesome hill
Look down on Bear Creek
Where my good gal used to live

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Would you let her part us, darling
Could you truly turn away
Would it make your heart ache, darling
Not to see me night or day

I've been dreaming of you, darling
Dreaming of your eyes so blue
Take me back, for love I'm dying
For I love none else but you

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Many a day with you I've rambled
Down by the shades of the deep blue sea
There you told me that you loved me
That you loved none else but me

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I will give you back your letters
And your picture I love so well
How it makes my heart ache, darling
Oh, that is hard to say farewell

Oh, bury me beneath the willow
Under the weeping willow tree
So she will know where I am sleeping
And perhaps she’ll weep for me

My heart is sad I am lonely
For the only one I love
When shall I see her oh no never
Til we meet in heaven above

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She told me that she dearly loved me
How could I believe it untrue
Until the angels softly whispered
She will prove untrue to you

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Tomorrow was to be our wedding
God oh God where can she be
She’s out a courting with another
And no longer cares for me

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I was born in East Virginny
North Carolina I did go
There I spied a fair young lady
And her age I do not know

Her hair was dark in color
Her cheeks were rosy red
Upon her breast she wore white lilies
Where I longed to lay my head

Oh, at my heart you are my darlin'
At my door you're welcome in
At my gate I'll always meet you
For you're the girl I've tried to win

I'd rather be in some dark holler
Where the sun refuse to shine
Than for you to be another man's darlin'
And to know you'll never be mine

I don’t want your green back dollar
I don’t want your watch and chain
All I want is you my darling
Say you’ll take me back again

Hello, stranger, put your loving hand in mine
Hello, stranger, put your loving hand in mine
You are a stranger and you're a pal of mine

Get up, rounder, let a working man lay down
Get up, rounder, let a working man lay down
You are a rounder, but you're all out and down

Every time I ride the 6th and 4th streetcar
Every time I ride the 6th and 4th streetcar
I can see my baby peeping through the bars

She bowed her head, she waved both hands at me
She bowed her head, she waved both hands at me
I'm prison bound, I'm longing to be free

Oh, I'll see you when your troubles are like mine
Oh, I'll see you when your troubles are like mine
Oh, I'll see you when you haven't got a dime

Weeping like a willow, mourning like a dove
Weeping like a willow, mourning like a dove
There's a girl up the country that I really love

Hello, stranger, put your loving hand in mine
Hello, stranger, put your loving hand in mine
You are a stranger and you're a pal of mine

This world is not my home, I'm just a-passing through
My treasures and my hopes are all beyond the blue;
Where many Christian children have gone on before,
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore.

Oh Lord, You know I have no friend but you
If Heaven's not my home, Oh Lord what would I do?
Angels have taken me to Heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore.

Over in glory land there is no dying there
The saints are shouting Vict'ry and singing everywhere.
I hear the voice of Nell that I have heard before
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore.

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Would have been better for us both had we never
In this wide and wicked world had never met
For the pleasure we've both seen together
I am sure, love, I'll never forget

Oh, I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes
Who is sailing far over the sea
Oh, I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes
And I wonder if he ever thinks of me

Oh, you told me once, dear, that you loved me
You said that we never would part
But a link in the chain has been broken
Leaves me with a sad and aching heart

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When the cold, cold grave shall enclose me
Will you come, dear, and shed just one tear
And say to the strangers around you
A poor heart you have broken lies here

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I'm a workin' on building
I'm a workin' on building
I'm a workin' on building
For my lord for my lord

It's a holy ghost building
It's a holy ghost building
It's a holy ghost building
For my lord for my lord 

If I was a liar I tell you what I would do
I would quit my lyin' and work on a building too

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If I was drunkard I tell you what I would do
I would quit my drinkin' and work on a building too

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If I was a preacher I tell you what I would do
I would keep on preachin' and work on a building too

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One morning as I rambled all down the seashore
The wind it did whistle and the waters did roar
I heard a fair damsel make a pitiful sound
It sounded so lonesome in the waters around

I never will marry or be no man's wife
I expect to live single all the days of my life
The shells in the ocean shall be my deathbed
The fish in deep water swim over my head

She plunged her fair body in the water so deep
She closed her blue eyes in the waters to sleep
My love's gone and left me, the one I adore
She's gone where I never will see her anymore

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There’s a dark and a troubled side of life
There’s a bright and a sunny side too
Though we meet with the darkness and strife
The sunny side we also may view

Keep on the sunny side   always on the sunny side
Keep on the sunny side of life
It will help us every day it will brighten all our way
If we keep on the sunny side of life

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Oh the storm and its fury broke today
Crushing hopes that we cherish so dear
The clouds and storm will in time pass away
The sun again will shine bright and clear

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Let us greet with a song of hope each day
Though the moment be cloudy or fair
Let us trust in our Savior always
To keep us every one in His care

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I've got the lonesome homesick blues
I've got them bad babe, down in my shoes
I left someone there that I might lose
That's why I've got these old homesick blues

It makes me homesick to hear your name
And hold you dear, in my arms again
I'm a gonna ride that old lonesome train
To the one I left back in Maces Spring

You told me once dear, you loved me so
And it's on my mind dear, every where I go
I'll soon be knowing if it is so
Or has your love for me grown cold

Oh, listen to that old lonesome train
It's a gonna carry me back again
To the one that told me their love was true
I'll spend the rest of my days with you

I've been away babe a long, long time
Now I'm riding down this old railroad line
And the one I love there, I hope to find
To ease this lonesome blue heart of mine

When the sun sets in the west my Honey Lou
Then's the time I love you best my Honey Lou
Come and look into my eyes
When the moon shines in the skies
I'll be in paradise my Honey Lou 

Last night I waited long my Honey Lou
And told the birds my song my Honey Lou
When the bright and silver moon
Sheds its soft and mellow light
I'll love you more each night my Honey Lou 

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When the birds have hushed their song my Honey Lou
All the twilight shadows on my Honey Lou
My heart forever beats
For my honey gal so sweet
I'll lay it at your feet my Honey Lou 

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On a hill lone and gray
In a land far away
In a country beyond the blue sea
Where beneath that far sky
Went a man for to die
For the world and for you and for me

Oh it bows down my heart
And the tear drops do start
When in memory that gray hill I see
It was there on its side
Jesus suffered yes he died
To redeem a poor sinner like me

Oft I hear the dull blow
Of the hammer swung low
They are nailing my lord to the tree
With the cross he upraised
While the multitude gazed
He ascended that hill lone and gray

Oh it bows down my heart
And the tear drops do start
When in memory that gray hill I see
It was there on its side
Jesus suffered yes he died
To redeem a poor sinner like me
   
Shout aloud to them I’m told
Let the glad tidings roll
From the land to the end of the sea
Where beneath that far sky
Went a man for to die
For the world and for you and for me

There was a little ship
And she sailed upon the sea
And she went by the name of the Merry Golden Tree
As she sailed upon that low and lonesome low
As she sailed upon that lonesome sea

There was a little sailor
Unto his captain said
Oh captain captain, what’ll you give to me
If I sink ‘em in that low and lonesome low
If I sink ‘em in that lonesome sea

Two hundred dollars
I would give unto thee
And my oldest daughter I will wed unto you
If you sink them in that low and lonesome low
If you sink them in that lonesome sea

And he bowed upon his breast
And in swam he
Till he came to the ship of that Turkish Reveille
As she sailed upon that low and lonesome low
As she sailed upon that lonesome sea

He had a little tool,
it was made for the use
And he bored nine holes in her hull all at once
And he sank her in that low and lonesome low
And he sank her in that lonesome sea.

Oh Captain captain,
Send a rope for me
For I’ve come back to claim
What was promised to me
For I sank ‘em in that low and lonesome low
For I sank ‘em in that lonesome sea.

Oh Brave young sailor
I will not hear your plea
And I will not give what I promised to you
For I’ll leave you to that low and lonesome low
I’ll leave you that lonesome sea

If it wasn’t for the love
Of your daughter and your men
I would do unto you as I did unto them
I would sink you in that low and lonesome low
I would sink you in that lonesome sea

He bowed his head
And down sank he
Farewell farewell to the Merry Golden Tree
For I’m sinking in that low and lonesome low
For I’m sinking in that lonesome sea

Oh, I'll twine with my mingles and waving black hair
With the roses so red and the lilies so fair
And the myrtle so bright with the emerald hue
The pale and the leader and eyes look like blue

Oh I'll dance, I will sing and my laugh shall be gay
I will charm every heart, in his crown I will sway
When I woke from my dreaming, my idol was clay
All portion of love had all flown away

Oh he taught me to love him and promised to love
And to cherish me over all others above
How my heart is now wond'ring no mis'ry can tell
He's left me no warning, no words of farewell

Oh, he taught me to love him and called me his flower
That was blooming to cheer him through life's dreary hour
Oh, I long to see him and regret the dark hour
He's gone and neglected this pale wildwood flower

It takes a worried man to sing worried song
It takes a worried man to sing worried song
I'm worried now but I won't be worried long

I went across the river, and I lay down to sleep
I went across the river, and I lay down to sleep
When I woke up, had shackles on my feet

Twenty nine links of chain around my leg
Twenty nine links of chain around my leg
And on each link, the initial of my name

It takes a worried man to sing worried song
It takes a worried man to sing worried song
I'm worried now but I won't be worried long

I asked that judge, tell me, what might be my fine
I asked that judge, tell me, what might be my fine
Twenty one years on the R C Mountain line

The train arrived, sixteen coaches long
The train arrived, sixteen coaches long
The girl I love is on that train and gone