Old Plank Road

Lyrics:

• Rather be in Richmond with all the hail and rain
• Than to be in Georgia boys wearin' that ball and chain


• Won't get drunk no more
• Won't get drunk no more
• Won't get drunk no more
• Way down the Old Plank Road


• I went down to Mobile, but I got on the gravel train
• Very next thing they heard of me, had on that ball and chain


• Doney, oh dear Doney, what makes you treat me so
• Caused me to wear that ball and chain, now my ankle's sore


• Knoxville is a pretty place, Memphis is a beauty
• Wanta see them pretty girls, hop to Chattanoogie


• I'm going to build me a scaffold on some mountain high
• So I can see my Doney girl as she goes riding by


• My wife died on Friday night, Saturday she was buried
• Sunday was my courtin' day, Monday I got married


• Eighteen pounds of meat a week, whiskey here to sell
• How can a young man stay at home, pretty girls look so well