Appalachian Boy

My Appalachian boy

Will you be mine?

With your eyes as black as the coal in the hollers

I'd trade my railway sack, turn my back, forsake all others

To hang your supper on a line

Will you be mine?

Will you be mine?

My Appalachian boy

Are you the only one?

Let my heart be still 'neath the hickory, cool and shady

To haunt those hills where your momma met your daddy

I'd die a thousand times

Will you be mine?

Will you be mine?

And if we should never meet again

If I should fall in to the arms of a fistful of other men

Die one day and meet those gates and they decide to let me in

There you'll be lookin' just like you did the day we met

Till then, I just don't know what I believe in now

What is love but ties, lies and broken vows

So wait, don't be afraid

My heart has many things to show you

I'll wait--long the days--the time it takes to really know you

And you are a good man

And I will understand you

I will understand