Gordon Lightfoot - Sweet Guinevere |
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Sweet Guinevere
Gordon Lightfoot Sweet Guinevere you're off to the coal town tonight You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, if you're kind And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA She loves a young man and he lives in the town He leaves the house early for he works underground He makes a good wage for a coal miner's son You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine And she's a bit pretty, just turned twentySweet Guinevere you're off to the coal town tonight And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, shut the blind She remembers an explosion and the black falling rain She knows her good mother's not feelin' no pain She paints her thin lips in her dewySweet Guinevere you're off to the coal town tonight Then she says to the daughter, dear daughter I pray You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, if you're kindAnd your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA |
