Lonesome Valley- Tommy Doyle (AR) 1965 Parler C
[My title. Fragment from Ozark Folk Song Collection Reel 305 Item 4 (The Bramble Briar). Collected by Doug Dunham for M.C. Parler. Transcribed by Linda Humphrey.
R. Matteson 2016]
Lonesome Valley- Sung by Tommy Doyle. Instrumental by T. Doyle at Hilltop Cafe between Diamond and Neoshe, Mo. Jan. 2, 1965
She traveled over rocks and great tall mountains,
Through the hills and valleys below,
Till she came to the Lonesome Valley;
There she found him dead in the snow.
She went back home and saw her brother,
She said, "You done a terrible thing.
I'm going tell the local sheriff,"
Now her brother's a-gonna hang.
He was her love before he was killed,
In the Lonesome Valley below,
But she's gone from this Lonesome Valley,
His body's buried six feet below.