the transcription 5 entries above is missing the very end of the last verse:
"..and I love to sing the blues, but when I hear a redbird sing, my heart jumps in a whirl...It reminds me of the time I once spent with a Piney River Girl" Refrain

Was camping in western VA mountains around 1984, came around a turn in the road and saw a sign "Piney River 6"   I knew the song back then, but had suspected Piney River was created by Staines...it exists....