文本歌词

Blackjack Oak - Carolyn Hester
Love came by from the riversmoke
When the leaves were fresh on the tree
But I cut my heart on the blackjack oak
Before they fell on me
The leaves are green in the early spring
They are brown as linsey now
I did not ask for a wedding-ring
From the wind in the bending bough
Fall lightly lightly leaves of the wild
Fall lightly on my care
I am not the first to go with child
Because of the blowing air
The good girls sleep in their modesty
The bad girls sleep in their shame
But I must sleep in the blackjack oak
Till my child can have a name
Cold and cold and cold again
Cold in the blackjack limb
The winds of the sky for his sponsor-men
And a bird to christen him
He's going to act like a hound let loose
When he comes from that blackjack tree
And he's going to walk in proud shoes
All over tennessee
All over tennessee