Lyrics:
Bessie couldn't help it
Bessie couldn't help it
Bessie couldn't help it any more
Than you could or I could
Bessie couldn't help it though she tried
Bessie couldn't help it
Bessie couldn't help it
Bessie couldn't help it any more
Than you could or I could
Bessie couldn't help it though she
Bessie couldn't help it,
Bessie couldn't help it
Bessie couldn't help it any more than you could, or I could
Bessie couldn't help it though she
Bessie couldn't help it,
Bessie couldn't help it
Bessie couldn't help it any more than you could, or I could
Bessie couldn't help it though she
Bessie couldn't help it,
Bessie couldn't help it
Bessie couldn't help it any more than you could, or I could
Bessie couldn't help it though she
Bessie was more than just a friend of mine
We shared the good times with the bad
Now many a year has passed me by
I still recall the best thing I
Bessie was more than just a friend of mine
We shared the good times with the bad
Now many a year has passed me by
I still recall the best thing I
Bessie was more than just a friend of mine
We shared the good times and the bad
Many years have since passed me by
I still recall the best thing I
Ogwen--Bessie's gone
Bessie's gone away
I looked in the high meadow for her
I think she's gone
I looked down by the river
And I looked behind
Bessie was more than a friend of mine
We shared the good times and the bad
Well many years has since passed me by
I still recall the best thing I
will save the girl I love
By that love I hold for Bessie
I will see that somethin's done!
Not one minute he delayed
When this brave resolve was made
Carsmile Smith, he's the old one
Don't you know, that he's a good one?
don't cha, don't chat?
(2 X)
Bessie stood by the side of the grave
Bessie
I love you but you're red meat
It's a classic tragic recipe
You're the last one left to go
A bevy
Of people pinching pennies
Blasting red
Louisiana, little Bessie, girl that I once knew
She told me just to come on by, if there's anything she could do
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I
Little Bessie, girl that I once knew
And she told me just to come on by
If there's anything she could do
Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me
If I
Little Bessie, girl that I once knew
And she told me just to come on by
If there's anything she could do
Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me
If I
Bessie was a lovely child from West Tennessee
A D
Leroy was an outlaw hard and mean
G
One day she saw him starring & it chilled her to the bone
will save the girl I love
By that love I hold for Bessie
I will see that somethin's done!
Not one minute he delayed
When this brave resolve was made
Bessie, you know that I love you
I love you, girl, with all of my heart
And Bessie, you know how much I care
There's nothing gonna tear us apart
the Hoi Polloi
The man that owns it is Sylvester Brown
His girl friend Bessie wears a rhinestone gown
It's on the south side at the edge of the town
could any day in a card game
And Bessie McNeal but her tears are real, I can see pain
There's a mixture of teardrops and flowers, crying and talking for
Bessie couldn't help it any more than you could, or I could
Bessie couldn't help it though she tried to be good, Oh! So good.
She was pretty
Bessie's a strange little girl
Her legless dolls cry at night
She had a rabbit but it ran away
She has a scar on her toe from its bite
Her baby
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