Caleb Meyer

Lyrics:

• Caleb Meyer, he lived alone
• In them hollarin' pines
• Then he made a little whiskey for himself
• Said it helped pass the time


• Long one evening in back of my house,
• Caleb come around
• And he called my name 'til I went out
• with no one else around


• Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
• wear them rattlin' chains.
• but when I go to sleep at night,
• Don't you call my name


• Where's your husband, Nellie Kane
• Where's your darlin gone?
• Did he go down off the mountain side
• and leave you all alone?


• Yes, my husband's gone to Bowlin' Green
• to do some business there.
• Then Caleb threw that bottle down
• and grabbed me by my hair.


• Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
• wear them rattlin' chains.
• but when I go to sleep at night,
• Don't you call my name


• He threw me in the needle bed,
• across my dress he lay
• then he pinned my hands above my head
• and I commenced to pray.


• I cried My God, I am your child
• send your angels down
• Then feelin' with my fingertips,
• the bottle neck I found


• I drew that glass across his neck
• as fine as any blade,
• and I felt his blood pour fast and hot
• around me where I laid.


• Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
• wear them rattlin' chains.
• But when I go to sleep at night,
• Don't you call my name


• Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
• wear them rattlin' chains.
• But when I go to sleep at night,
• Don't you call my name