Lyr Req: They're at Rest Together (Tom Callahan)

Subject: The girl she got that old consumption
From: GUEST,Jawbone
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 08:19 AM

Does anyone know where i can get the title/lyrics of an old bluegrass sone with a verse:

He'd often go up in the mountain
and sit upon his sweethearts bed
But the saddest part of the story
is, now the boy he is dead

thanks;
Jawbone

Subject: Lyr Add: THEY'RE AT REST TOGETHER (Tom Callahan)
From: cetmst
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 06:12 AM

The song is recorded by Hazel Dickens, Tom Gray and Mike Seeger on "Mike Seeger's Third Annual Farewell Reunion" (Rounder).

A boy and girl once loved each other,
More than the world would ever know,
But the girl she took that old consumption;
It broke that boy's heart you know,
It broke that boy's heart you know.

They carried her up to the mountain,
To try to gain her health, you see.
But listen all of you good peiople,
You never can whip that old TB,
You never can whip that old TB.

He would often go up on the mountain
And sit upon his sweetheart's bed.
But the saddest part of all this story
Is now the boy he is dead,
Is now the boy he is dead.

They buried them both up in the mountain;
They sleep together now at rest.
That old TB brought them together.
God up yonder knows the best.
God up yonder knows the best

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-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The girl she got that old consumptio
From: cetmst
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 06:18 AM

Neglected to say the song was written by Tom Callahan, recorded by the Callahan Brothers on a Decca 78 5952