Iuka Lyrics - Put Your Needle Down - The Secret Sisters

I'd never tell a man to ask my daddy for my hand 

I've got a thousand tales about the temper of that man 

He'd shoot a man who came within a mile of my young frame 

But I know that you will take the risk so I can take your name 

You've got the ring, I've got the keys, and sixty miles ahead 

Iuka, Mississippi where the two of us will wed 

Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 

'Fore he knows the two of us have up and gone 

Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 

We can run away and never come home 

never come home 

My Daddy finally knocked a little sense right into me 

So I asked around until I found the Justice of the Peace 

The bruises on my body can't be hidden anymore 

So park your car up on the hill, I'm headed out the door 

Step easy so my daddy doesn't hear us sneak away 

Hang around he'll shoot you down that's why we just can't stay 

Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 

'Fore he knows the two of us have up and gone 

Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 

We can run away and never come home 

Follow close behind me, not much further now 

Always just a shadow, I didn't hear a sound 

Ain't no way he heard us, Ain't no way he'll come 

I hear someone breathin', hold my hand and run 

Somewhere in the river there's a gun the devil owned 

Somehow everybody knew that everything was wrong 

A noose up in the maple tree; the old man's gonna pay 

Two headstones for two lovers who finally got away 

Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 

'Fore he knows the two of us have up and gone 

Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 

We can run away and never come home 

Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 

'Fore he knows the two of us have up and gone 

Take me down to Iuka, Mississippi 

We can run away and never come home 

Never come home