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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

Chorus