Its mournful melodies come drifting
Through the valley and the glen,
Those last haunting , misting memories
Of the mountain mandolin.
A jaunty jew’s-harp joins along now
Like a lonesome loud amen,
While a fiddle fades and then rises
With that mountain mandolin.
Then the bass moans of an old cowboy
Who in rage shot his best friend,
As that band of long ago...
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