http://acmespaceship.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] acmespaceship.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] beamjockey 2011-08-31 09:00 pm (UTC)

http://www.4shared.com/audio/LsI4HTZt/Before_They_Close_The_Minstrel.html

[C]Poster's peeling underneath
Last [G7]summer's morning glory [C]vine
Old white hat and a stump o' cigar
And an [G7]empty bottle o' wine

Lay me [C]down, Caro[F]lina, lay me [C]down
Don't wanna wake up in the [F]morn[C]ing no [G7]more
Sing me one [C]slow sad [C7] song for this one [F]last old [Dm]time
Before they [G7] close the minstrel [C] show

Banjo's got a broken string
Don't 'spect I'll get to fix it now
There won't be no more chance to sing
Well I'm rusty anyhow

Daddy Bones is dead, I guess
You probably don't know or care
Frank and Archie's gone away
Somewhere, I don't know where

The money and the crowd ran out
Before we left the last town
This old show done played its round
Run the curtain down

I don't know where we go from here
Comes to that I just don't care
Maybe we'll go to a better place
And the minstrel show'll be there

-- "Before They Close The Minstrel Show" by Bob Coltman

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