Punkin Center Barn Dance Lyrics - David Allan Coe

He came from Kentucky least ways that's what I've been told 

Me and fate had left that state before his corpse got cold 

He'd been killed for gold hhen California could be sold 

To any fool who had been told bbout the Punkin Center Barn Dance 

Mama had the fever and my daddy sold his soul 

To someone called the devil that he'd met along life's road 

Dad would stop to drink a toast and mom was looking like a ghost 

Was gonna beat us to the coast and the Punkin Center Barn Dance 

At the Punkin Center Barn Dance that's where everyone would be 

Dancing to Virginia's reel and the waltz of Tennessee 

When the roll is called up yonder you can hear the angels sing 

At the Punkin Center Barn Dance God is gold the grass is green 

Yeah I left California just before the Grateful Dead 

Told the truth about the gold I'd searched for in my head 

Like my Dad I'd roamed the land and Mom could never understand 

How Lucifer could bring a man to the Punkin Center Barn Dance 

Well times are changin' poets say since mom and dad both passed away 

But some things in this life will never change 

The poets write of things to come the earth will melt into the sun 

And you and I will be the ones at the Punkin Center Barn Dance 

At the Punkin Center Barn Dance... 

At the Punkin Center Barn Dance...