Way Down the Old Plank Road

Way Down the Old Plank Road - Uncle Dave MacOn

Rather be in Richmond

With all the hail and rain

Than to be in Georgia boys wearin'

That ball and chain

Won't get drunk no more

Won't get drunk no more

Won't get drunk no more

Way down the Old Plank Road

I went down to Mobile

But I got on the gravel train

Very next thing they heard of me

Had on that ball and chain

Doney oh dear Doney

What makes you treat me so

Caused me to wear that ball and chain

Now my ankle's sore

Knoxville is a pretty place

Memphis is a beauty

Wanta see them pretty girls

Hop to Chattanoogie

I'm going to build me a scaffold

On some mountain high

So I can see my Doney girl

As she goes riding by

My wife died on Friday night

Saturday she was buried

Sunday was my courtin' day

Monday I got married

Eighteen pounds of meat a week

Whiskey here to sell

How can a young man stay at home

Pretty girls look so well