New Cut Road Guy Clark

[Verse 1]
Coleman Bonner was a fiddle playing fool
He's a backwoods rounder and a breaker of mules
Coleman Bonner’s got a wore out bow
He’s been playing two days down the new cut road

[Verse 2]
Now Coleman’s little sister said, "You better act right, Coleman
Daddy's gone to Louisville, he’ll be back tonight
He’s going to get another wagon and a good pair of mules
Oh and we're going to move to Texas, we just waiting on you"

[Verse 3]
Now Coleman’s daddy, he pulled up in the yard
He said, "Pack up your lives, kids, it’s getting too hard
Kentucky’s alright, but there’s too many people
Oh just the other day I thought I saw a church steeple"

[Verse 4]
Now Coleman said, "Daddy, don't you worry about me
I'm going to stay here in Kentucky till the day I die
I'm going to drink that sour mash and I'm gonna race that mare
Oh, I've got me a woman with the fox red hair"

[Verse 5]
"Now y’all been moving west since the day you got married
Well I'm getting off the wagon daddy, I'm too old to be carried
I'm going to stay here in Kentucky where that bluegrass grows
And I'm going to play it all night down the new cut road"