Old Smokey
- On top of Old Smokey
- All covered with snow
- I lost my true lover
- For a courting too slow
For courting is a pleasure
- And parting is grief
- And a false hearted lover
- Is worse than a thief
A thief will just rob you
- And take all you have
- But a false hearted lover
- Will lead you to the grave
The grave will decay you
- And turn you to dust
- Not one boy in a hundred
- A poor girl can trust
They'll hug you and kiss you
- And tell you more lies
- Than cross-ties on a railroad
- Or stars in the sky
So come all young maidens
- And listen to me
- Never place your affections
- On a green willow tree
The roots they will wither
- The leaves they will die
- You'll all be forsaken
- And never know why