It's a lonesome feeling when you're traveling
Down a lonesome road down a lonesome road
Nobody cares a thing about me
It's a heavy load, it's a heavy load
I fell in love in Cincinnati
Her love was true and she told me so
I gave her rings and all my money
Where she ran off to I'll never know
It's a lonesome feeling when you're traveling
Down a lonesome road down a lonesome road
Nobody cares a thing about me
It's a heavy load, it's a heavy load
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I wish that I was in Kentucky
With papa and mama dear
But mama's gone and so is papa
And Kentucky's a long way from here
It's a lonesome feeling when you're traveling
Down a lonesome road down a lonesome road
Nobody cares a thing about me
It's a heavy load, it's a heavy load
It's a heavy load, it's a heavy load...