Lyric Carrie Brown - Steve Earle

Lyric Song Carrie Brown:

The first time I saw Carrie Brown
She was so young and fair
A voice like spring rain fallin down and sunlight in her hair
I d never seen her face before so I asked all around
Her daddy owns a grocery store and she lives in Bristol town

Carrie darlin Carrie Carrie Brown I cry
If I can t marry Carrie Brown believe I d rather die

I laid my last ten dollars down
Though I didn t need a thing
Just to touch sweet Carrie Brown
When she handed me my change
I hung around ‘till closin time I scarce believed my eyes
My darlin walkin arm in arm
With a boy named Billy Wise

I walked around in Bristol town a bitter broken man
A heart that pined for Carrie Brown and a pistol in my hand
We met again on State Street poor Billy Wise and me
I shot him in Virginia and he died in Tennessee

Now I m down in the Bristol jail and all I do is cry
‘Cause the jury found me guilty and the judge says I must die
I m just a poor young mountain boy
Ain t never been to town
And I ve come to ruination for the love of Carrie Brown