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Blood on My Shoes

from Nelson County Wayside by Colin Cutler

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lyrics

I was at the bar last night
With little Nelson Peek
We were walking home where Maul's Run flows
Down to Big Swift Creek
Down to Big Swift Creek

That liquor got to talking,
And we began to fight
With no one there to see us,
But the moon was shining bright
The moon was shining bright.

CHORUS
I've got blood on my shoes, little darling,
Blood on my shoes.

He threw me in the water,
The creek was black as sin.
In a drunken rage, I drew my knife,
And then I plunged it in.
And then I plunged it in.

You may have my house, my dear,
For I must up and run.
I leave to you my land and barn,
I'll take my horse and gun.
I'll take my horse and gun.

CHORUS
I've got blood on my shoes, little darling,
I've got blood on my shoes.

Well, Laura, if they hang me,
Don't you shed a tear,
But raise our boy to stay away
From cards and girls and beer,
From wine and the women and the beer.

And please tell Nelson's mother,
If you should see her cry
Please tell her that my cousin
Was a better man than I,
A better man than I.

CHORUS
I've got blood on my shoes, little darling,
I've got blood on my shoes.

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from Nelson County Wayside, released April 15, 2016

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Colin Cutler Greensboro, North Carolina

Armed with a guitar, banjo, a brace of harmonicas, Colin tells stories of love and loss with characters wide open as a Midwest sky and wild as the mountains, with poetry thick as a Carolina swamp.

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