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Coleman Bonner was a fiddle playing fool
He's a backwoods rounder and a breaker of mules
Coleman Bonner's got a wore out bow
He's been playing all day down the new cut road
Coleman's little sister said you better act right Coleman
Daddy's gone to Louisville he'll be back tonight
He's going to get another wagon and a good pair of mules
And we going to move to Texas we just waiting on you
Coleman's daddy pulled up in the yard
He said pack up your lives kids it's getting too hard
Kentucky's alright but there's too many people
Well just the other day I thought I saw a church steeple
Coleman said daddy don't you worry bout me
I'm going to stay here in Kentucky till the day I d
I'm going to drink that sourmash I'm going to race that mare
And find that woman with the fox red hair
Now you all been moving west since the day you got married
Well I'm getting off the wagon daddy I'm too old to be carried
Going to stay here in Kentucky where the bluegrass grow
I'm going to play it all night down the new cut road
Coleman's daddy said now what's it all comn' to
Young people these days they just as stubborn as mules
You can't make him go naw he's too old for that
It's that damned ole fiddle and that bolder hat
Coleman's mama said let the boy stay
Because he's raised up solid he can find his own way
But as for me honey I'm with you
I always thought Kentucky was just passing through
Coleman's little sister then she started into a crying
And his daddy shook his head for the very last time
Coleman's mama said somebody's got to do it
Wouldn't be no Kentucky less you didn't stick to it Coleman
Coleman Bonner stood on the porch of that cabin
Watched them all go to Texas in a covered wagon
He pulled out his fiddle and he rosined up his bow
And he played a little tune called the new cut road
