On Top of Old Smokey

On Top of Old Smokey (在老護林熊的頭頂) - Josh White (喬什·懷特)/Brownie McGhee

On top of old smokey

All covered with snow

I lost my true lover

From a courting too slow

Now courting's a pleasure

But parting is grief

And a false hearted lover

Is worse than a thief

A thief will but rob you

And take what you have

But a false hearted lover

Will send you to your grave

The grave will decay you

And turn you to dust

There's no girl in twenty

A poor man can trust

She'll tell you she loves you

And tell you more lies

Than cross-ties on a railroad

Or stars in the skies

Come all you pair maidens

Take warnings from me

Never place your affection

On a green willow tree

The leaves they will wither

The roots they will die

Your lover will leave you

And you never know why

Your lover will leave you

And you never know why