LOST JOHNNY

Oh, I wonder where my lost Johnny's gone (x3)
Oh, he's gone to that new railroad
He's gone to that new railroad

Go make me a pallet on the floor (x3)
Believe I will eat morphine and die
Believe I will eat morphine and die

I'll go if I have to ride the rail (x3)
To the road where my Johnny is
To the road where my Johnny is

Source: collected by Harvey H. Fuson from Mrs Ethel Edwards. In Fuson 'Ballads of the Kentucky Highlands' London 1931 p 151. Reprinted in Duncan Emrich 'American Folk Poetry' Little Brown 1974 p 665.

--Stewie.