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[00:08.48]Coalman Bonner was a fiddle playin' fool
[00:11.53]He was a backwoods rounder and a breaker of mules
[00:16.07]Coalman Bonner's got a wor' out bow
[00:19.11]He been playin' two days down a new cut road
[00:23.17]Now Coalman's little sister said, "You better act right, Coalman
[00:27.38]Daddy's going to Louisville, he'll be back tonight
[00:30.51]He gonna get another wagon and a good pair of mules
[00:34.57]Oh, we gonna move to Texas, we just waitin' on news"
[00:38.30]Now Coalman's daddy, he pulled up in the yard
[00:41.95]He said, "Back up your lives kids, it's getting too hard
[00:46.14]Kentucky's alright but there's too many people
[00:49.85]Well, just the other day, I thought I saw a church steeple"
[00:53.67]Now Coalman said, "Daddy don't you worry 'bout me
[00:57.07]I wanna stay here in Kentucky 'til the day I dee
[01:00.84]I'm wanna drink that sour mash, I'm gonna raise that mare
[01:04.87]Yeah, I got me a woman with a foxy red hair"
[01:08.98]"We all been movin' west since the day he got married
[01:12.78]I'm getting off the wagon, I'm too old to be carried
[01:16.54]I'm gonna stay in Kentucky where the blue grass grows
[01:20.23]I'm gonna play it all night down a new cut road"
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[01:39.68]Now Coalman's daddy said, "What's it all comin' to?
[01:43.56]Young people these days are just stubborn as mules"
[01:47.22]He can't make 'em go, he's too old for that
[01:50.87]It's that damned ol' fiddle and that bowler hat
[01:55.02]Now Coalman's momma said, "Let the boy stay
[01:58.66]'Cause he's raised up solid, he can find his own way
[02:02.90]But as for me, honey, I'm with you
[02:06.47]I always thought Kentucky was just passin' through"
[02:10.83]Coalman's little sister, she started in a cry
[02:14.26]And his daddy shook his hand for the very last time
[02:18.47]Coalman's momma said, "Somebody gotta do it
[02:21.91]Wouldn't be no Kentucky, 'less you didn't stick to it, Coalman"
[02:26.50]Coalman Bonner stood on the porch of that cabin
[02:29.64]Watched 'em all go to Texas in a covered wagon
[02:33.73]He pulled out his fiddle and he rosined up his bow
[02:37.37]And he played a little tune called New Cut Road
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