Taneytown Lyrics - Steve Earle

I went down to Taneytown 

I went down to Taneytown 

To see what I could see 

My mama told me never go 

I'm damn near twenty two years old 

Sometimes I fear this holler swallow me 

She ran off to Gettysburg 

Went off with that new beau of hers 

I snuck off after dark 

It's a long way down the county road 

The stars were bright and the moon was low 

Down to where the black top highway starts 

I went down to Taneytown 

I went down to Taneytown 

I went down to see what I could see 

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Now everybody stared at me 

You'd think that they ain't never seen 

A colored boy before 

Well they chunked at me and called me names 

They'd have whopped me sure but the sheriff came 

I slipped off ran through the dry goods store 

I ran down Division Street 

Some of them boys followed me 

Down to the railroad track 

There's four of them and I can't fight 

But I had my old Randall knife 

I cut that boy and I never did look back 

I went down to Taneytown 

I went down to Taneytown 

I went down to see what I could see 

Cross the fields and woods I run 

Like a bullet from a rabbit gun 

Back home to my bed 

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Now Ma came in from Gettysburg 

Her and that new beau of hers 

"Boy you look like hell"; alls she said 

A month went by without a word 

Somebody down the holler heard 

About that boy they hung 

He begged those men to spare his life 

But I dropped my bloody Randall knife 

He picked it up so they thought he was the one, yeah 

I went down to Taneytown 

I went down to Taneytown 

I ain't goin' back there anymore