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Short Life Of Trouble

from BOBTOWN (album) by Bobtown

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SHORT LIFE OF TROUBLE
(Traditional)

Short life of trouble
A few more words to part
Short life of trouble, dear girl
For a boy with a broken heart

You know what you promised
not more than a week ago
You promised that you'd marry me
standing in your mama's door

But now you broke your promise
Go marry whom you may
Oh, this old world, so big and so wide
I'll ramble back some day

Short life of trouble
A few more words to part
Short life of trouble, dear girl
For a boy with a broken heart

Sitting on my bedside
thinking the whole day through
I'd give all this world and half my life
Just to be married to you

And I hear a train a-coming
it's blowing a station blow
I'd rather be dead and in my grave
Than to see my darlin' go

Short life of trouble
A few more words to part
Short life of trouble, dear girl
For a boy with a broken heart

My right foot's on the platform
My left foot's on the train
They'll carry me down to old Asheville town
Just to wear that ball and chain

I see my casket coming
And it's all lined in black
They'll take me to that little graveyard
To never bring me back

Short life of trouble
A few more words to part
Short life of trouble, dear girl
For a boy with a broken heart

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from BOBTOWN (album), released August 1, 2010

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Bobtown Brooklyn, New York

"If you're looking for acoustic gothic-folk-Americana kissed with gorgeous harmonies then look no further." -Americana UK

NYC-based Bobtown's four full-length CDs show their evolution from mostly a capella arrangements to full instrumentation, with bits of folk, Americana, pop, bluegrass, rock, and gospel all bound together by a continuous thread of innovative vocal harmonies. ... more

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