Emmylou Harris – Going Back to Harlan

Emmylou Harris – Going Back to Harlan Lyrics

Artist: Emmylou Harris
Song: Going Back to Harlan

There were no cuckoos, no sycamores
We played about the forest floor
Underneath the silver maples, the balsams, and the sky
We popped the heads off dandelions

Assuming roles from nursery rhymes
Rested on the riverbank and grew up by and by
And grew up by and by
Frail my heart apart

And play me a little “Shady Grove”
Ring the bells of Rhymney
Till they ring inside my head forever
Bouncе the bow

Rock the gallows
For the hangman’s reel
And wakе the devil from his dream
I’m going back to Harlan, oh

I’m going back to Harlan, oh oh
I’m going back to Harlan
And if you were Willie Moore
And I was Barbara Allen

Or Fair Ellen all sad at the cabin door
A-weeping and a-pining for love
A-weeping and a-pining for love
Frail my heart apart

And play me a little “Shady Grove”
Ring the bells of Rhymney
Till they ring inside my head forever
Bounce the bow

Rock the gallows
For the hangman’s reel
And wake the devil from his dream
I’m going back to Harlan, oh

I’m going back to Harlan, oh oh
I’m going back to Harlan
I’m going back to Harlan, oh oh
I’m going back to Harlan, oh oh

I’m going back to Harlan, yeah
I’m going back to Harlan, oh oh
I’m going back to Harlan, oh oh
I’m going back to Harlan, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
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From the album:
On the Road
Release Year: 2016