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They’re at Rest Together

By:Walter Callahan · Source Recording: Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (1973)

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A boy and girl once loved each other
More than this world will ever know
But the girl she took that old consumption
It broke the boy's heart you know
Hee hee hee it broke the boy's heart you know

They carried her up to the mountains
To try to gain her health you see
But listen all of you good people
You never can whip old TB
Hee hee hee you never can whip old TB

He'd often go up to the mountains
And sit upon his sweetheart's bed
But the saddest thing of all this story
Now the boy he is dead
Hee hee hee now the boy he is dead

They buried them both in the mountains
They're together now at rest
That old TB took them to heaven
God up yonder knows the best
Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee

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By:Walter Callahan · Source Recording:Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (1973)

Song Details

Also Known As
T.B. Blues, They Sleep Together Now at Rest
Songwriter
Walter Callahan
First Release
The Country Gentlemen (1961)
Genres
Classic Bluegrass
Themes
Death and Mourning Mountains
Jam Popularity

History

Further reading: Secondhand Songs

Source Recording

Artist
Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard
Album
Pioneering Women of Bluegrass cover Pioneering Women of Bluegrass (1973)
Key B Time Boom-Chuck Tempo 91 BPM Length 3:28
Musicians

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