Clarence Ashley - Dark Holler (1929 - "Hillbilly" Music)

Clarence Ashley - Dark Holler (1929 Columbia Records) -  A love song about a dead woman 




"...And her cheeks was rosy red
On her breast she wore white lilies
For the tears that I have shed

When I'm asleep I'm dreaming about you
When I wake I have no rest
Ever moment seems like an hour
All the pain rolls through my breast..." 


"...I'd rather be in some dark hollow (holler)
Where the sun don't ever shine
Than for you to be some other man's darling
When you ain't no longer mine

Papa says I must not marry
Papa says it'll never do
But little girl if you are willing
I will run away with you
For I'd rather be in some dark hollow
Where the sun don't ever shine
Than for you to be some other man's darling
When you ain't no longer mine..."








"...Between the Cracks and Hollows,
The EARTH is GOOD..."  Fields of the Nephilim - "Love Under Will, 1987"