Carter's Blues - Original - The Carter Family

As I woke up one morning fair

To view the fields and take the air

For to view the fields and meadows around

I thought I heard some mournful sound

I thought I heard my true love say

«Oh, do turn and come this way»

Yodel-ay-ee, oh-lay-ee, ay-oh-lay-ee

You love some other, you don’t love me You care not for my company

You love some other, and I know why

Because he has more gold than I But gold will melt and silver will fly

My love for you will never die

Yodel-ay-ee, oh-lay-ee, ay-oh-lay-ee

There is a flower, I’ve heard them say

That can be seen from day to day

And if that flower I only could find

To cure this aching heart of mine

Yodel-ay-ee, oh-lay-ee, ay-oh-lay-ee

So fare you well, my charming little love

Oh, meet me in that land above

And when we meet there in that land

We’ll take no more this parting hand

Yodel-ay-ee, oh-lay-ee, ay-oh-lay-ee