Amos Burke

Lyrics

[Chorus] Amos Burke was a friend of mine He loved to dance with Quarentine Florentine or Laura Dime I'd always tag along behind [Verse 1] I was born down in Tupelo Twenty eight long years ago If I knew what I now know I never left down in Tupelo [Chorus] Amos Burke was a friend of mine He loved to dance with Quarentine Florentine or Laura Dime I'd always tag along behind [Verse 2] A can of beans and a two men show Across the country we'd a' go From the mountains of Idaho Down to the Gulf of Mexico [Chorus] Amos Burke was a friend of mine He loved to dance with Quarentine Florentine or Laura Dime I'd always tag along behind [Verse 3] Amos taught me wrong from right Not to hate and not to fight But they shot him down one night He was black, and I was white [Chorus] Amos Burke was a friend of mine He loved to dance with Quarentine Florentine or Laura Dime I'd always tag along behind