Carrie Brown Lyrics - The Mountain - Steve Earle

The first time I saw Carrie Brown 

She was so young and fair 

A voice like spring rain fallin' down and sunlight in her hair 

I'd never seen her face before so I asked all around 

Her daddy owns a grocery store and she lives in Bristol town 

Carrie darlin' Carrie Carrie Brown I cry 

If I can't marry Carrie Brown, believe I'd rather die 

I laid my last ten dollars down 

Though I didn't need a thing 

Just to touch sweet Carrie Brown 

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When she handed me my change 

I hung around 'til closin' time I scarce believed my eyes 

My darlin' walkin' arm in arm 

With a boy named Billy Wise 

I walked around in Bristol town a bitter broken man 

A heart that pined for Carrie Brown and a pistol in my hand 

We met again on State Street poor Billy Wise and me 

I shot him in Virginia and he died in Tennessee 

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Now I'm down in the Bristol jail and all I do is cry 

Cause the jury found me guilty and the judge says I must die 

I'm just a poor young mountain boy 

Ain't never been to town 

And I've come to ruination for the love of Carrie Brown