Fiddler Jones

The earth gives us music, it’s there in your heart

If you’re lucky you feel it in the end from the start

You hear it, it hears you, you trust and obey

Where’er it may lead you, you won't go astray

It brought me a fiddle, so fiddle I do

From the church to the sawmill,I’ve left many a tune

I’ve played in the jailhouse on a prisoners last night

We both cried like a baby til dawn’s early light

All the pretty girls dancing,I still hear their skirts

They’re spinning and prancing with dandies and flirts

I play through the laughter,I play all alone

‘til it’s me and the horses,pack up and go home

And the people all know me wherever I go

There’s Fiddler Jones, there goes Fiddler Jones

I have forty acres,a mule and a plow

I no more get started and one comes around

For a picnic or wedding, we strike us a deal

And i’m off in their wagon my plow in the field

I hear choirs and symphonies up in my head

In the wind in the cornstalks, my heartbeat in bed

In the rivers, in robins, the creak of a door

In red-headed sammy steppin off toor-a-loor

I’ve fiddled for governers, I’ve fiddled for slaves

I’ve fiddled at birthings,I’ve fiddled on graves

I’ve one thousand memories I’ll never forget

One broken fiddle, and not a single regret

And the people all know me wherever I go

There’s Fiddler jones,there goes Fiddler jones

And the people all know me wherever I go

There’s Fiddler Jones, there goes Fiddler Jones