Taneytown  - Steve Earle

    I went down to Taneytown
    I went down to Taneytown
    To see what I could see
    My mama told me never go
    I'm damn near 22 years old
    Sometimes I feel this holler swallow me
    She ran off to Gettysburg
    Went off with that new beau of hers
    I snuck off after dark
    It's a long way down the county road
    The stars were bright and the moon was low
    Down to where the black top highway starts
     

    [Chorus]
    I went down to Taneytown
    I went down to Taneytown
    I went down to see what I could see

    Now everybody stared at me
    You'd think that they ain't never seen
    A colored boy before
    Well they jumped at me and they called me names
    And they whoopped me sure but the sheriff came
    I slipped off - ran through the dry goods store
    Now I ran down Division Street
    And some of them boys followed me
    Down to the railroad track
    Well there was four of them and I cain't fight
    But I got my old Randall knife
    I cut that boy and I never did look back

    Chorus

    Across the fields and woods I run
    Like a bullet from a rabbit gun
    Back home to my bed
    Now Ma come in from Gettysburg
    Her and that new beau of hers
    "Boy you look like hell" is all she said

    A month went by without a word
    Somebody down the holler heard
    'Bout that boy they hung
    He begged those men to spare his life
    But I dropped my bloody Randall knife
    He picked it up so they thought he was the one

    I went down to Taneytown
    I went down to Taneytown
    I ain't goin' back there anymore

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