The Girl On the Greenbrier Shore - The Carter Family

Was in the year of '92

In the merry month of June

I left my mother and a home so dear

For the girl I loved on the green-briar shore

My mother dear, she came to me

And said, «Oh, son, don’t go

Don’t leave your mother and a home so dear

To trust a girl on the green-briar shore»

But I was young and reckless, too

And I craved a reckless life

I left my mother with a broken heart

And I choose d that girl to be my wife

Her hair was dark and curly, too

And her loving eyes were blue

Her cheeks were like the red red rose

The girl I loved on the green briar shore

The years rolled on and the months rolled by

She left me all alone

Now I remember what mother said

«Never trust a girl on the green briar shore»