《John Wilkes Booth》歌词

[00:00:00] John Wilkes Booth - Tony Rice

[00:00:10] John Wilkes Booth was a southern man

[00:00:13] Born of an actor in Maryland

[00:00:16] Bound for fortune on a gas-lit stage

[00:00:20] Bound to die at a tender age

[00:00:26] Washington to Baltimore

[00:00:29] He played the bills and he slept with whores

[00:00:32] And he burned inside with a hatred deep

[00:00:36] For the man who caused the south to weep

[00:00:40] Young Abe Lincoln wasn't young no more

[00:00:44] Tired old man when he won the war

[00:00:47] And he dreamed at night of his death by the hands

[00:00:50] Of the bitter world and a faceless man

[00:00:53] And he saw his body in a ghastly dream

[00:00:56] Draped in black while his widow screamed

[00:01:00] Two silver dollars on his eyelids lay

[00:01:03] Abraham Lincoln has died today

[00:01:08] And they said there were five and they said there were ten

[00:01:11] Some say there was never more than just one man

[00:01:15] Who would smile to see Mr Lincoln dead

[00:01:19] In the name of God and Dixie in the name of God and Dixie Land

[00:01:43] John Wilkes Booth and his band of men

[00:01:47] They'd failed before but would try again

[00:01:50] When Good Friday dawned with a fickle sun

[00:01:54] Then Booth declared the day had come

[00:01:59] And the word was passed and the guns were brought

[00:02:03] Down to Mary Sarrat's boarding house

[00:02:06] Sealed in a note Booth named just four

[00:02:10] But the gallows would sway with many more

[00:02:12] And they said there were five and they said there were ten

[00:02:15] Some say there was never more than just one man

[00:02:19] Who would smile to see Mr Lincoln dead

[00:02:23] In the name of God and Dixie in the name of God and Dixie Land

[00:02:47] John Wilkes Booth went to his grave

[00:02:50] With a bullet in his neck and a broken leg

[00:02:54] A patriot and his fantasy

[00:02:57] Of redemption grace and bravery

[00:03:01] And those who were hanged and those who spent

[00:03:05] Their lives behind a jailer's fence

[00:03:08] Only Booth could have proved them free

[00:03:11] Of the taint of the conspiracy

[00:03:14] For they said there were five and they said there were ten

[00:03:17] Some said there was never more than just one man

[00:03:21] Who would smile to see Mr Lincoln dead

[00:03:24] In the name of God and Dixie in the name of God and Dixie Land

[00:03:33] In the name of God and Dixie in the name of God and Dixie Land