Darling Corey - The Weavers, Pete Seeger

Wake up, wake up darling Corey

What makes you sleep so sound

The revenue officers are coming

They’re gonna tear your still house down

Well, the first time I seen darling Corey

She was sitting on the banks of the sea

Had a forty-four around her body

And a banjo on her knee

Go away, go away darling Corey

Quit hanging around my bed

Your liquor has ruined my body

Pretty women gone to my head

Dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadow

Dig a hole in the cold, cold ground

Dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadow

Gonna lay darling Corey down

Can’t you hear those bluebirds a singing

Don’t you hear that mournful sound

They’re preaching darling Corey’s funeral

In some lonesome graveyard ground

Wake up, wake up Darlin Corey

And go get me my gun

I ain’t no man for fightin'

But I’ll die before I run…