Six Months Ain’t Long

By:Unknown · Source Recording: The Stanley Brothers (1963)Song details

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Six months ain't long for me to be gone
Six months six months ain't long
Six months ain't long for me to be gone
Oh darlin' six months ain't long

Come all of my friends wherever you may be
And listen to my song
You're all to see I'm in the wrong
'Cause all I've got's done gone

If I'd-a been framed by an upright judge
For six long months of time
I'll do my best to make the test
And darlin' I'll be home soon

The judge he fixed a sentence here
And the clerk he wrote it down
Six months ain't long in the county jail
For shootin' up this town

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Song Details

Songwriter
First Release
Marlow and Young (Leonard Rutherford, John D. Foster) (1929)
Genres
Traditional Bluegrass Traditional Old-Time
Themes
Prison Outlaws
Jam Popularity

History

Further reading: Secondhand Songs

Source Recording

Key F Time Waltz Tempo 177 BPM Length 2:47
Musicians

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