Stan Rogers was great!

I like a song that boils it down like:
"Take a trip with me in nineteen thirteen
to Calumet Michigan in the copper country....."
or
"In the shadow of the steeple, I saw my people......."

"Do you see yon crow that flies so high? T'will surely turn to white,
If I am false to the girl I love, bright morning turn to night......"

"Tell you more lies than cross-ties on a railroad or stars in the skies...."

"Longest train i ever did see was on the Georgia line.
Engine come in at six o'clock and the caboose came in at nine."
(Them trains are really long)

"You're an eyeless, boneless chickenless egg
and you'll have to stand by a bowl and beg.............."

"Some'll rob you with a six-gun and some with a fountain pen...."

"It's cloudy in the West and it's lookin' like rain
and my damned old slicker's in the wagon again....."

The world of folk is full of profound stuff.