The Punkin Center Barn Dance Lyrics

David Allan Coe - The Punkin Center Barn Dance
He came from Kentucky
Least ways that's what I've been told
Me and fate had left that state
Before his corpse got cold
He'd been killed for gold
When California could be sold
To any fool who had been told
About the Punkin Center Barn Dance.
Mama had the fever
And my Daddy sold his soul
To someone called the devil
That he'd met along life's road
Dad would stop to drink a toast
And Mom was looking like a ghost
Was gonna beat us to the coast
And the Punkin Center Barn Dance.
Chorus:
At the Punkin Center Barn Dance
That's where everyone would be
Dancing to Virginia's Reel
And the Waltz of Tennessee
When the roll is called up yonder
You can hear the angels sing
At the Punkin Center Barn Dance
God is gold, the grass is green.
Yeah, I left California
Just before the Grateful Dead
Told the truth about the gold
I'd searched for in my head
Like my Dad I'd roamed the land
And Mom could never understand
How Lucifer could bring a man
To the Punkin Center Barn Dance.
Well, times are changin', poets say
Since Mom and Dad both passed away
But some things in this life
Will never change
The poets write of things to come
The Earth will melt into the Sun
And you and I will be the ones
At the Punkin Center Barn Dance.
Chorus: X2