Man of Constant Sorrow Songtext
von Joseph Decosimo

I have been a man of constant sorrows
Lord, it′s been trouble all my days
I'll bid farewell to Fentress County
To the place I was born and raised


Farewell dear girl. I′m bound to leave you
You may think I'm doing you wrong
But nature binds on me to ramble
And leave this home, where I've been so long.

Kind miss, kind miss go and ask your mother
If you can be a bride of mine
If she says yes, then come and tell me
If she says no, I′ll go away

But I′m bound to ride that Southern railroad
I aim to go one thousand miles

Oh while you were sleeping, while you were slumbering
I am sleeping in the clay