Just a mile (just a mile) down the road (down the road)

And a street or two away

Lives that freckled misses that I want most every dayTo the home (to the home) of her father (of her father)

I′m gonna drag my sore old feet

Tell him she's the woman who can wake me from my sleep

She said, "Kiss me"

Lord I listened

But I haven′t gone back since

Oh, you know I curse the mind for building proper fence

Yeah, I will roll and I will suffer

Curse the soil and curse the stones

Keep my eyes a-leakin' for that girl who does love my bones

I've known (I′ve known) her for a year

Only seen her seven days

One week, too many to keep a man like me away

She said, "Kiss me"

Lord I listened

You know I haven′t gone back since

You know I curse the mind for building proper fence

So three years after

Found her doorstep

Found her shoes and found her kin

They told me old Grim Reaper

Done come and turned her in

Pourin' liquor (pourin′ liquor) on the stone

That, that marks my lost and gone

I will whimper and wail

And sing her funeral song