"Girl From Tennessee" lyrics - CHARLIE POOLE

There's a girl from Tennessee
Just as dark as she could be
And she never went to church or Sunday School
Says she went one day
When she heard that preacher say:

I'm gonna live in the highways 'till I die
The life I aim on living's very high
Oh, sticks and stones gonna break-a my bones
Talk about me when I'm dead and gone
But I'm gonna live in the highways 'till I die

I'm gonna run me a cemetery of my own
If you don't let my gal there alone
Gonna buy me a razor, gonna scrape the blade
Gonna lay some son of a gun in the shade
For I'm gonna live in the highways 'till I die