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Fair And Tender Ladies (trad.)     Silver Dagger (trad.)


My daddy was a handsome gambler
He had a chain five miles long
On every link a heart gets dangled
Of another maid he loved and wronged

He told to you some loving story
He'd make you think he'd leave them true
But love grows cold as love grows older
And fades away like morning dew

I'd rather be in some dark hollow
Where the sun refused to shine
Than to live here in Missouri
With your memory always on my mind

Come all ye fair and tender ladies
Take warning how your court your man
They're like a star on a summer's morning
First they appear then they're gone again
  

Don't sing love songs, you'll wake my mother
She's sleeping here right by my side
And in her right hand a silver dagger,
She says that I can't be your bride.

All men are false, says my mother,
They'll tell you wicked, lovin' lies.
The very next evening, they'll court another,
Leave you alone to pine and sigh.

My daddy is a handsome devil
He's got a chain five miles long,
And on every link a heart does dangle
Of another maid he's loved and wronged.

Go court another tender maiden,
And hope that she will be your wife,
For I've been warned, and I've decided
To sleep alone all of my life.
Dark Hollow (Bill Browning)


I'd rather be in some dark hollow
Where the sun don't ever shine
Than to be at home alone and knowing that you're gone
Would cause me to lose my mind

And blow your whistle freight train
Carry me farther on down the track
I'm going away I'm leaving today
I'm going but I ain't coming back

I'd rather be in some dark hollow
Where the sun don't ever shine
Than to be in some big city
In a small room with your love on my mind

And blow your whistle freight train
Carry me farther on down the track
I'm going away I'm leaving today
I'm going but I ain't coming back

Well, and blow your whistle freight train
Carry me farther on down the track
Well, I'm going away I'm leaving today
I'm going but I ain't coming back

I'm going away I'm leaving today
I'm going but I ain't coming back


Fort Knox Music, Inc. / Trio Music Co., Inc. (BMI)		   Dark Hollow (trad.)


I'd rather be in some dark hollow
Where the sun don't ever shine
Then to be at home alone and knowin' that you're gone
Would cause me to lose my mind.

So blow your whistle freight train
Take me far on down the track
I'm going away, I'm leaving today
I'm goin', but I ain't comin' back.

I'd rather be in some dark hollow
Where the sun don't ever shine
Then to be in some big city,
In a small room, with you on my mind.

I'd rather be in some dark hollow
Where the sun don't ever shine
Then to see you another man's darlin'
And to know that you'll never be mine


Gene Clark "Flying High" 1998