New Cut Road - Live; 2003 Remaster

Folks, I'd like to do a song, it's written by a friend of mine
 His name is Guy Clarke and ah, he recorded it and then Bobby Bare recorded it
 Had a big hit with it, boy, when I heard that song I was so mad that I didn't do it first
 It's a great song, it has lots and lots of verses
 And I've only ventured to do it once and I remembered 'em all, so...
 We'll see if I can keep my, my average up with this one
 And we decided to do the song little different from the way everybody else has done it so
 The most different thing we could think of was an accordion
 And ah, Guy Clarke is not speaking to me but we're gonna do it anyway
 Okay
 One, two, one, two, three
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 Now, Coleman Bonner was a fiddle playin' fool
 A backwoods rounder and a breaker of mules
 Coleman Bonner's got a wore out bow
 He's been playin' two days down new cut road
 Now, Coleman's little sister said, "You better act right
 Coleman, daddy's gone to Louisville, he'll be back tonight
 He's gonna get another wagon and a good pair of mules
 And we gonna move to Texas, we just waitin' on you"
 Now, Coleman's daddy, he pulled up in the yard
 He said, "Pack up your lives, kids, it's gettin' too hard
 Kentucky's alright but there's too many people
 Why? Just the other day I thought I saw a church steeple
 Now, Coleman said, "Daddy don't you worry 'bout me
 I'm gonna stay here in Kentucky 'til the day I breath
 I'm gonna drink that sour mash and I'm gonna race that mare
 And I got me a woman with the fox red hair"
 "Now, y'all been movin' west since the day you got married
 Well, I'm gettin' off the wagon, daddy, I'm too old to be carried
 Gonna stay here in Kentucky 'til the bluegrass grow
 I'm gonna play it all night down the new cut road"
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 Now, Coleman's daddy said, "What's it all comin' to
 Young people these days are just as stubborn as mules
 You can't make him go, he's too old for that
 It's that damned old fiddle and that bowler hat"
 Now, Coleman's mama said, "Let the boy stay
 'Cause he's raised up solid, he can find his own way
 But as for me, honey, I'm with you
 Yeah, I always thought Kentucky was just passin' through"
 Now, Coleman's little sister was then started to a cry
 And his daddy shook his head for the very last time
 Coleman's mama said, "Somebody's gotta do it
 Lord, there wouldn't be no Kentucky if you didn't stick to it"
 Coleman Booner stood on the porch of that cabin
 Watched 'em all go to Texas in a covered wagon
 Then he pulled out his fiddle and he rosined up his bow
 And he played a little tune called "The New Cut Road"