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Thread #45057 Message #664629
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
07-Mar-02 - 06:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Little Rosewood Casket
Subject: Lyr Add: LITTLE ROSEWOOD CASKET
This is an old tune, found as early as 1870 (CUFreso Traditional Ballad Index)
Lyr. Add: LITTLE ROSEWOOD CASKET
In a little (G7) Rosewood (C) casket
In the hall up-(G7) on a (C) stand
There's a package of (F) old love (C) letters
Written (G7) by a true love's (C) hand.
Won't you go and get them, sister
Read them o'er to me tonight
I have tried so hard to read them
But the tears, they blind my sight.
Place his letters and his picture
Both together by my heart
With a little ring he gave me
From my finger ne'er shall part.
When I'm dead and in my casket
And deep in my grave I live
I want to be there close beside him
When they lay me down to die.
Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys (North of the Rio Grande), Capitol Records J-LZC-12. From Cowpie, Casket
A little different from the version in the DT.