Sweet Guinevere Composer(s): Gordon Lightfoot Performer(s): Gordon Lightfoot
Sweet Guinevere youre off to the coal town tonight And your young brother Ernies up in Pittsburgh PA You know mother loves you, and dads in the mine So dont go to the coal town, Guinevere, if youre kind She loves a young man and he lives in the town He leaves the house early for he works underground He makes a good wage for a coal miners son And shes a bit pretty, just turned twenty-one
Sweet Guinevere youre off to the coal town tonight And your young brother Ernies up in Pittsburgh PA You know mother loves you, and dads in the mine So dont go to the coal town, Guinevere, shut the blind
She knows her good mothers not feelin no pain She remembers an explosion and the black falling rain She paints her thin lips in her dewy-eyed way Then she says to the daughter, dear daughter I pray
Sweet Guinevere youre off to the coal town tonight And your young brother Ernies up in Pittsburgh PA You know mother loves you, and dads in the mine So dont go to the coal town, Guinevere, if youre kind
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