Lightfoot Gordon Sweet Guinevere Lyrics

Sweet Guinevere Lyrics

Sweet Guinevere you're off to the coal town tonight

 And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA

 You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine

 So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, if you're kind

 

 She loves a young man and he lives in the town

 He leaves the house early for he works underground

 He makes a good wage for a coal miner's son

 And she's a bit pretty, just turned twenty-one

 

 Sweet Guinevere you're off to the coal town tonight

 And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA

 You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine

 So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, shut the blind

 

 She knows her good mother's not feelin' no pain

 She remembers an explosion and the black falling rain

 She paints her thin lips in her dewy-eyed way

 Then she says to the daughter, dear daughter I pray

 

 Sweet Guinevere you're off to the coal town tonight

 And your young brother Ernie's up in Pittsburgh PA

 You know mother loves you, and dad's in the mine

 So don't go to the coal town, Guinevere, if you're kind