J i m’s S o n g B o o k A C OLLE C TION OF F A VORITES , M OSTLY Back to Contents JIM’S SONG BOOK: A COLLECTION OF FAVORITES–PRETTY MUCH T ab LE OF C ONTENTS ( TITLES LINKED TO pa GES ) 1. Ain’t Nobody Gonna Miss Me 47. I’ll Fly Away 90. Rocky Road Blues 2. All the Good Times Are Past 48. I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome 91. Rocky Top and Gone 49. I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky 92. Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms 3. Amber Tresses Tied in Gold 50. I’m Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open 93. Russian Lullaby 4. Angel Band 51. I’m Just Here to Get My Baby 94. Salty Dog 5. Are You Tired of Me My Darling? Out of Jail 95. Shady Grove (Garcia) 6. Are You Waiting Just For Me 52. I’m On My Way Back To The 96. Shady Grove (Doc Watson) 7. Ashes of Love Old Home 97. She Caught the Katy 8. Big Spike Hammer 53. I’m Troubled 98. Sitting Alone in the Moonlight 9. Big Rock Candy Mountain 54. I’m Working On A Building 99. Sittin’ On Top Of The World 10. Blue Night 55. In Her Own Peculiar Way 100. Stealin’ 11. Blue Railroad Train 56. In The Pines 101. Sugar Coated Love 12. Blue Ridge Cabin Home 57. Jesus Is On the Main Line 102. Sunny Side of the Mountain 103. Sweetheart, You Done Me Wrong 13. Bury Me Beneath the Willow 58. June Apple 104. Swing Low Sweet Chariot 14. (But) That’s Alright 59. Just A Closer Walk With Thee 105. That High Lonesome Sound 15. Cluck Old Hen 60. Keep On The Sunny Side 106. The Road Is Rough 16. Country Boy 61. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and 107. There Ain’t Nobody Gonna 17. Cry Cry Darlin Burning Miss Me 18. Crying Holy 62. Kentucky Waltz 108. Think Of What You’ve Done 19. Dark Hollow 63. Life’s Too Short 109. Those Memories 20. Deep Elem Blues 64. Little Cabin Home On The Hill 110. Til The End Of The World 21. Deep River Blues 65. Little Georgia Rose Goes Round 22. Dixie Darlin’ 66. Long Black Veil 111. ‘Tis Sweet To Be Remembered 23. Down in the Willow Garden 67. Long Gone 112. Toy Heart 24. Down to the River to Pray 68. Louis Collins 113. Trail Of Tears 25. Down Where the River Bends 69. Love, Come Home 114. True Life Blues 26. Drifting Too Far From the Shore 70. Love Gone Cold 115. Two-Dollar Bill 27. Every Knee Must Bow 71. Maiden’s Prayer 116. Uncle Pen 28. Fishin’ Blues 72. Man of Constant Sorrow 117. Uncloudy Day 29. Footprints in the Snow 73. Molly And Tenbrooks 118. Walls of Time 119. Wayfaring Stranger 30. Frankie and Johnnie 74. Mom and Dad’s Waltz 120. Weary Blues (from Waiting) 31. Going To the Races 75. Mountain Dew 121. When I Die I’ll Live Again 32. Gospel Plow 76. My Home’s Across The 122. When I Lay My Burden Down 33. Ground Hog Blueridge Mountains 123. White Dove 34. Hard Hearted 77. My Rose Of Old Kentucky 124. White House Blues 35. Hard Pressed 78. New River Train 125. Who Will Sing For Me? 36. Hard Times 79. Nine-Pound Hammer 126. Wicked Path of Sin 37. Hello Mary Lou 80. Ninety-Nine Years 127. Wild Bill Jones 38. High On A Mountain Top 81. No Depression in Heaven 128. Will the Circle Be Unbroken 39. Highway of Sorrow 82. Old and In the Way 129. Will You Be Lovin Another Man 40. How Mountain Girls Can Love 83. Old Train 130. Worried Man Blues 41. I Ain’t Broke (But I’m Badly Bent) 84. On and On 131. You’re Love is Like a Flower 42. I Saw the Light 85. Orphan Girl 43. I Wonder Where You Are Tonight 86. Paradise 44. If I Could Only Win Your Love 87. Peach Pickin’ Time in Georgia 45. If I Lose 88. Pig in a Pen 46. If I Should Wander Back Tonight 89. Raleigh and Spencer Back to Contents 1 AIN’T NOBODY GONNA MISS ME Jimmy Martin 1 / 1 / 4 / 4 1 / 1 / 5 / 5 1 / 1 / 4 / 4 1 / 5 / 1 / 1 Once I had a little sweetheart I love dearly We planned the day when she would be my own Another man he stole my darlin from me And there ain’t nobody gonna miss me when I’m gone CHORUS: Oh there ain’t nobody gonna miss me when I’m gone There ain’t nobody gonna mourn for me too long Oh won’t you write these words upon my tombstone There ain’t nobody gonna miss me when I’m gone I had a lovin mother dear and daddy They’ve gone to live where the angels love to dwell They found eternal life up there in heaven Where I’ll find my reward none can tell Now you’ve been faithful kind and true to me old Copper You’re the only one that’s never done me wrong I am weepin while I pat your head ol Copper For there ain’t nobody gonna miss me when I’m gone Back to Contents 2 ALL THE GOOD TIMES ARE PAST AND GONE (A) I wish to the lord I’d never been born Or died when I was young I never would have seen your sparkling blue eyes Or heard your lying tongue CHORUS: All the good times are past and gone All the good times are o’er All the good times are past and gone Little darling don’t weep no more Don’t you see that turtle dove That flies from pine to pine He’s mourning for his own true love Just like I mourn for mine Don’t you see that passenger train Going around the bend? It’s talking away my own true love To never return again Come back, come back my own true love And stay awhile with me For if ever I’ve had a friend in this world You’ve been that friend to me Back to Contents 3 AMBER TRESSES TIED IN BLUE A.P. Carter Far away in some deep mountain Where the merry sunbeams play There I wandered thru the clover Singing to a village maid She was dearer than the dearest Ever loving kind and true And she wore beneath her bonnet Amber tresses tied in blue CHORUS: She was all I had to cherish Every loving king and true Now I see in every vision Amber tresses tied in blue Fact decreed that we parted When the leaves of autumn fell Then two hearts were seperated That had loved each other well CHORUS Back to Contents 4 ANGEL BAND My latest sun is sinking fast My race is nearly run My longest trials now are passed My triumph has begun CHORUS: Oh, come angel band Come and around me stand Bear me away on your snowy wings To my immortal home Bear me away on your snowy wings To my immortal home Oh,bear my loving heart to him Who bled and died for me Whose blood now cleanses from all sins And gives me victory CHORUS I’ve almost reached my heavenly home My spirit loudly sings The holy ones,behold they come I hear the noise of wings CHORUS Back to Contents 5 ARE YOU TIRED OF ME MY DARLING? Lilly Brothers Are you tired of me my darling Did you mean those words you said When you spoke in fond affection On the day that we were wed CHORUS: Tell me could you live life over Would you make it otherwise Are you tired of me my darling Answer only with your eyes Did you ever rue the springtime When we first each other met And you told me that you’d love me Words my heart can n’er forget Back to Contents 6 ARE YOU WAITING JUST FOR ME R ED A LLEN 1 / 1 / 4 / 4 1 / 1 / 5 / 5 1 / 1 / 4 / 4 1 / 5 / 1 / 1 Are you waiting just for me my darling While I’m across the deep blue sea Or have you found someone else my darling Please tell me are you waiting just for me? While I’m writing you tonight my darling There’s such a burning deep down in my breast I know you promised that you would be faithful Please tell me darling have you stood the test? You’ve never given me of course I’m doubt you You have always been so true and fine But my spirit keeps on singing low For appearing then a new love you might find Back to Contents 7 ASHES OF LOVE Jim & Jesse G C G D D G G C G D D G CHORUS: Ashes of love cold as ice, You made the debt and I’ll pay the price. Our love is gone there’s no doubt, Ashes of love the flame burned out. The love light that gleamed in your eyes, Has gone out to my surprise. We said goodbye my heart bled; I can’t revive our love- it’s dead. I trusted dear our love would stand, Your every wish was my command. My heart tells me I must forget, I loved you then I love yet.