Lyr Req: Miller's Cave (from Hank Snow)

Subject: murder song
From: MaryLee
Date: 21 Sep 99 - 12:26 AM

A tune I heard in the late '60's, it concerns a murder, an escape and hiding in a cave on someone's mountain. Not Wolverton's Mountain. (I don't know who, if anyone, recorded it. I heard it sung at Pleiku very late at night while on duty at the hospital.)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: murder song
From:
Date: 21 Sep 99 - 12:56 AM

Mary Lee. I think you are talking about Miller's Cave. Have a look

Miller's Cave

Subject: RE: Tune Req: murder song
From: MaryLee
Date: 23 Sep 99 - 11:55 PM

Thanks, George. The name sounds right. But I cannot open the file. I'm 'pewter literate, but not too "techy". The format is 'card file' and I haven't a clue what to do with it.

Subject: Lyr Add: MILLER'S CAVE (Harlan Howard)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Sep 99 - 12:10 AM

Hi, Mary Lee - what George posted is a link. If you click on it, it should take you direct to another page with the lyrics. Here's a copy of that page.
-Joe Offer-

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Date: 9/23/96; 7:22:30 PM
From: [e-mail] (Gene L. Graham)
Subject: MILLER'S CAVE

MILLER'S CAVE
Recorded by Hank Snow
Written by Harlan Howard

[C] Way down in the [G] state of [C] Georgia
Thru the [G] swamps and ever-[C] glades
There's a [F] hole in Tiger [C] Mountain
God help the man who gets [G] lost in Miller's [C] Cave.

I had a girl (had a girl)
in Waycross, Georgia (Waycross, Georgia) but she had unfaithful ways
Made me feel (made me feel) I was unwanted (so unwanted)
Like the bats and the bears in Miller's Cave.

CHANGE TO C#
I couldn't stand the way she did me
Couldn't take her low down ways
Before I'd stay with a cheatin' woman
I'll go live the bears in Miller's Cave.

I caught her out (caught her out) one Sunday morning (Sunday morning)
With a man they call Big Dave
Meanest man (meanest man) in Waycross, Georgia (Waycross, Georgia)
I'd rather fight a Mountain Lion in Miller's Cave.

CHANGE TO D
I said you'll pay, both you and Davey
I must see you in your grave
They laughed at me and then I shot 'em
I took their cheatin', schemin' bones to Miller's Cave.

That woman made (woman made) me feel unwanted (so unwanted)
But I showed 'em I was brave
Most wanted man in the state of Georgia
But they'll never find me 'cause I'm lost in Miller's Cave.

STRUM: [G]Dark cold, [D]cave, [A]Miller's [D]Cave.


Hey, I've been near Waycross, Georgia. Up at the north end of the Okefenokee Swamp. That area is where I first tasted boiled peanuts. Sure is different from California.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Tune Req: murder song
From: MaryLee
Date: 24 Sep 99 - 01:37 AM

Alright! Yes, those are the words! Don't know why that song has remained in the flotsam of memory, but it has. When I first heard it sung, about 2am, in a tent hospital in Pleiku, it seemed one of the spookiest songs I had ever heard. Don't think I ever heard the recording.

Thanks to you both for the information. Love & Mewsic, MaryLee

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