Short Life of Trouble [core]
Remember what you promised
Not more than a week a-go
You promised that you'd marry me
Standing in your mama's back door
Chorus
Short life of trouble
A few more words to part
Short life of trouble, dear girl
Poor boy with a broken heart
Now you've broken your promise
Go marry who you may
For this old world's so big and so wide
I'll ramble back some day
Now you've gone and left me
And I don't know what to do
I'd give this world and half of my life
Just to be married to you
I hear the train a-comin'
I hear the whistle blow
I'd rather be dead in some lonesome graveyard
Than to see my darling go
My right foot's on the platform
My left foot's on the train
I'm leaving you and this lonesome old town
Never to return again
Available in these books:
Get Started Plus:Core Songs Edition
Big Print Songs
...and on these CDs:
Five CDs, 100 songs.
Recordings from the Abbott family and their friends.
Listen to sample tracks.
The MP3 collection has all 100 songs on one CD for a discount. See details.
