Gordon Lightfoot - Sweet Guinevere Lyrics
Sweet guinevere youre off to the coal town tonightAnd your young brother ernies up in pittsburgh paYou know mother loves you, and dads in the mineSo dont go to the coal town, guinevere, if youre kindShe loves a young man and he lives in the townHe leaves the house early for he works undergroundHe makes a good wage for a coal miners sonAnd shes a bit pretty, just turned twenty-oneSweet guinevere youre off to the coal town tonightAnd your young brother ernies up in pittsburgh paYou know mother loves you, and dads in the mineSo dont go to the coal town, guinevere, shut the blindShe knows her good mothers not feelin no painShe remembers an explosion and the black falling rainShe paints her thin lips in her dewy-eyed wayThen she says to the daughter, dear daughter I praySweet guinevere youre off to the coal town tonightAnd your young brother ernies up in pittsburgh paYou know mother loves you, and dads in the mineSo dont go to the coal town, guinevere, if youre kind
