Carter Boys

The Carter boys were born one and after another

In a little old country place

I was the last and the death of my mother

And I know it was a pretty bad trace

We'd get the drinking and I'd do the singing

They taught me to chase girls and cuss

We played poker and I'd do the dealing

I was the only one we could trust

And there were six of us all together

And that's how we stood all the time

Six of us all together

Oh the Carter boys were brothers of mine

We had an old car that we kept tied together

With pieces of vale and wire and hope

Well they knew when we got there and they knew when we left

They could tell by the noise and the smoke

Anytime the sheriff he had nothing to do

He'd get out and chase us around

The old women prayed the old men laughed

And the middle aged people all frowned

And there were six of us all together...

Daddy was a preacher and the Lord knows he tried

Gave us everything he could afford

We lost a lotta battles but daddy always said

The only thing we feared was the Lord

Well as I look back through the long lean years

I wonder how we ever survived

All of that hard work all of that drinking

And all those other men's wives

And there were six of us all together...

Oh there were six of us all together...