Tecumseh Valley

Townes van Zandt / Steve Earle: Train A Comin' (1995)

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	The name she gave was	Caro	line,

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The	daughter of a	miner.

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Her	ways were free; it	seemed to	me,

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That	sunshine walked	beside her.

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	she came from Spencer	across the	hill,

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She said	her Pa had	sent her,

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'Cause the	coal was low and soon	the	snow

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Would	turn the skies to	winter.

Well she said she'd come to look for work,

She was not seeking favors.

For a dime a day and a place to stay

She'd turn those hands to labor.

The times were hard, Lord, the jobs were few,

All through Tecumseh Valley.

But she asked around and a job she found

Tending Bar for Gypsy Sally.

She saved enough to get back home

When spring replaced the winter.

But her dreams were denied, her Pa had died,

The word came down from Spencer.

She turned to whorin' out in the streets

With all the lust inside her.

And it was many a man returned again

To lay himself beside her.

They found her down beneath the stairs

That led to Gypsy Sally's.

In her hand, when she died, Was a note that cried:

Fare thee well - Tecumseh Valley.

The name she gave was Caroline...