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Thread #55150 Message #904563
Posted By: Lin in Kansas
06-Mar-03 - 03:05 AM
Thread Name: Mudcat CD Plum: Liner Notes PermaThread
Subject: RE: Mudcat CD Plum: Arthur and Sally
16. Arthur And Sally(Harrison) 3:37 Bobert(Bob Harrison)—vocals
"The song is based on a real cemetery that I indeed found back in the woods in Spotsylvania County and my son, Ben, and I are the only folks that I know of who can find it. I go once a year, take a rake, lopping shears and a saw and clean it up. It kills off an entire day since its a 2-hour drive down there and another hour's walk thru some of the thickest woods."—Bobert
In the backwoods of Spotsylvania / A gravesite can be found Rustin' iron gate and two carved stones / Read "Arthur and Sally Brown"
Cho: Now, Arthur and Sally / Back in the pines Share croppin' tenants / With dreams on their minds
Now, we ain't talkin' no trips to China / No mansion on the hill Just forty acres of Virginia soil / And a little corn liquor still
Yeah, the corn grew full and oh so tall / And the wood did Arthur split But not outside the kitchen / But down by the crick
With the crops all in / He'd be back in the woods Smoke snakin' thru the oak / Brewin' shine that'd find its time On tables of city folk
Chorus
Now they're lyin' over on yonder ridge / Been there since '33 And since... there ain't been no shine so fine / in this old county
Yeah, they're lying over on yonder ridge / Been there since '33 And since... there ain't been no shine so fine / In Spotsylvanee Yeah, this old county