New Cut Road

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Coleman Bonner was a fiddle playing fool He's a backwoods rounder and a breaker of mules Coleman Bonner's got a wore out bow He's been playing two days down the new cut road [Verse 2] Now Coleman's little sister said, "You better act right, Coleman Daddy's gone to Louisville, he'll be back tonight He's going to get another wagon and a good pair of mules Oh and we're going to move to Texas, we just waiting on you" [Verse 3] Now Coleman's daddy, he pulled up in the yard He said, "Pack up your lives, kids, it's getting too hard Kentucky's alright, but there's too many people Oh just the other day I thought I saw a church steeple" [Verse 4] Now Coleman said, "Daddy, don't you worry about me I'm going to stay here in Kentucky till the day I die I'm going to drink that sour mash and I'm gonna race that mare Oh, I've got me a woman with the fox red hair" [Verse 5] "Now y'all been moving west since the day you got married Well I'm getting off the wagon daddy, I'm too old to be carried I'm going to stay here in Kentucky where that bluegrass grows And I'm going to play it all night down the new cut road" [Fiddle Solo] [Verse 6] Now Coleman's daddy said, "What's it all coming to? Young people these days are just as stubborn as mules Well, you can't make him go, he's too old for that It's that damned old fiddle and that bowler hat" [Verse 7] Now Coleman's mama said, "Let the boy stay 'Cause he was raised up solid and he can find his own way But as for me honey, I'm with you Oh, I always thought Kentucky was just passing through" [Verse 8] Now Coleman's little sister, well she started in a crying And his daddy shook his head for the very last time Coleman's mama said, "Somebody got to do it Whoa, there wouldn't be no Kentucky unless you didn't stick to it, Coleman" [Verse 9] Coleman Bonner stood on the porch of that cabin And he watched 'em all go to Texas in a covered wagon Then he pulled out his fiddle and rosined up his bow And he played a little tune called "The New Cut Road"