I been going like a chorus late at night
All busted down and burning for my bed
Ive been thinking about a woman in a wild kentucky town
Where the mountains are high near harlem
And the whirlpools drown, down
There my secret can be found
In the dark and bloody ground
In the dark and bloody ground

Oh, how i've missed you
Oh, how i've cried
I'd like to lay you down by my side
Love you just once before i die
And i'd be gentle
And i'd never hurt you
And god might send a moonbeam
Lay us down, pleasant dreams
Whatsoever things are lovely
Whatsoever things are true
Whatsoever things are kind and pure
Thank you, these things
And i will send out a moonbeam
And lay us down to pleasant dreams

Dewey was my best friend and he was tall
Stood six foot nine against the wall
We both loved the same girl but dewey he went bad
And i guess you could say he made one mad
He didn't have to do all those awful things to you
Yeah dewey made me sick
But i guess it takes two heels to click
I took my nine pound hammer
Swung it hard and spun him round
I kicked him in the temple
Watched him fall to the ground
Oh, my blade found its mark in the dark
And that blood flowed on the sand
From the tall kentucky man
Oh, hell hath no fury like the blues
When a man's got on his killing shoes
In the dark and bloody ground
The dark and bloody ground
The dark and bloody ground
The dark and bloody ground