My old man
had a rounder soul
He'd hear an ol' freight train
and he'd have to go
Said he'd been blessed with a
gypsy bone
And that's the reason I guess that
he'd been cursed to roam
Came to town back before the war
Didn't even know what it was
he was lookin' for
He carried a tattered bag for his violin
Full of lots of songs of the
places he had been
He talked real easy and
he smiled and waved
He could pass along to you
when his fiddle played
Makin' people drop their
cares and woes
And hum out loud the tunes
that his fiddle bowed
Til the people there began to join
that sound
And ev'ryone in town was laughin,'
singin,' dancin' 'round
Like the Fiddler's tunes we all
there heard that night
Like some dream that says all
the world is right
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The Fiddler's eye caught a beauty there
She had that rollin' flow
in' golden kind of hair
He played for her as if she
danced alone
He played his favorite songs,
the ones he called his own
She alone was dancin'
in the room
The only thing left movin' to that Fiddler's tune
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He played until she was the last to go
The he stopped and packed his case,
said he'd take her home
In all the nights that passed
a child was born
In all the years that passed,
love would keep them warm
And all their lives they'd share
that dream come true
And all because she danced so well
his fiddler tune
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The train next mornin' blew a
lonesome sound
As if she sang the blues of what
she took from town
And all that I recall that was said
when I was young
There's no one else could really sing those
songs he sung