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10 Oct 08 - 11:50 AM (#2462181) Subject: Lyr Req: Ferges County Jail From: GUEST,dickinnorwich Does anyone have the lyrics for this song? It's from a Front Range album, Ramblin' on My Mind. |
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10 Oct 08 - 03:08 PM (#2462361) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ferges County Jail From: Q (Frank Staplin) ?Fergus County Jail? Sung by the Slack Family, "Pickin' up the Slack." http://www.buy.com/prod/fergus-county-jail/q/loc/18250/205987449.html |
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10 Oct 08 - 03:41 PM (#2462394) Subject: ADD: Fergus County Jail (John Q. Lowell) From: Joe Offer The Front Range recording is available here (click) - and yes, it's spelled "Fergus County Jail." I found the lyrics at the songwriter's Website, http://www.johnlowell.com/songs_lyrics_fergus.htm Nice song. -Joe- FERGUS COUNTY JAIL (John Q. Lowell) I rolled into Lodge pole on a frosty winter day On my way from the California Gold In the tavern of the town, while the sun was going down I tried to drive away the cold. Rye whiskey to drive away the cold In the corner of the room sat a man with hardened eyes and he called for to drink another round But the whiskey came too slow, and he rose as if to go But he knocked the aged barkeep down He pistol whipped that poor man to the ground Chorus I wish that I was home in old Virginia on the farm The Whippoorwill a-singin' on the rail But the wind is blowing cold across the high Montana plains And I'm lying in the Fergus County Jail The stranger turned to me with the pistol in his hand and I swear I saw the hammer coming down The next thing that I knew, through a haze of smoky blue He was lying still upon the ground And the lawman of the town was coming round So I'm lying here tonight with the shackles on my feet and the winter wind is howling past the moon I know I could have run instead of fighting with a gun I'm much too young to die this soon This night in Fergus County's been my doom Chorus Recorded by Wheel Hoss (1995), by Front Range (1997), and by The Slack Family (2003)
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10 Oct 08 - 05:03 PM (#2462491) Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Ferges/Fergus County Jail From: Q (Frank Staplin) I rolled into Lodgepole- MT 'town'. Every wide place in the road has a bar in Montana- but Lodgepole may be the exception. It is on the Belknap Indian reservation, and a drifter would have quite a walk to the nearest whiskey. Anyone camped in the area lately? |