Mayhayley's House
Down in the shade of the knotty pine
Lives an old woman with a marble hide
Done as a hay, thin and vine and worn as bible pages
She was born with a veil – a seer's sign
A preacher's tongue and a lawyer's mind
She'd tell your fortune for a buck and a dime
The oracle of ages
Hey, let's go down
Let's go down to Mayhayley's house
They say, she's crazy
Hey, what you wanna know now
Ask Mayhayley and you'll find out
They say, she's crazy
John Mollis was a wealthy man
Cattle, people, liquor, land
He caught the wind of a thieving hand
And he killed the man who wronged him
Though when he heard the sheriff was asking 'round
He went out to Mayhayley's house
Asking if it'd be found out
She said that death is coming
Well the sheriff knew of Mayhayley too
And when he'd run near out of clues
He went to see her on a full moon
And said "I need to find a body"
She took hairs from a possum's leg
Spat 'em into the firing red
The flames fore wild and hung her head
And said "ashes on the water"
Hey, let's go down
Let's go down to Mayhayleys house
They say, she's crazy
Hey, what you wanna know now
Ask Mayhayley and you'll find out
They say, she's crazy
Well the sheriff found the ash and bone
On a creek bed by the Wallace home
He jailed him, trialed and him send on
His way by way of life
Mayhayley saw her fortune grow
People lined up and down the road
They found out things they didn't know
When they keep the hid from hiding
Hey, let's go down
Let's go down to Mayhayley's house
They say, she's crazy
Hey, what you wanna know now
Ask Mayhayley and you'll find out
They say, she's crazy
Lives an old woman with a marble hide
Done as a hay, thin and vine and worn as bible pages
She was born with a veil – a seer's sign
A preacher's tongue and a lawyer's mind
She'd tell your fortune for a buck and a dime
The oracle of ages
Hey, let's go down
Let's go down to Mayhayley's house
They say, she's crazy
Hey, what you wanna know now
Ask Mayhayley and you'll find out
They say, she's crazy
John Mollis was a wealthy man
Cattle, people, liquor, land
He caught the wind of a thieving hand
And he killed the man who wronged him
Though when he heard the sheriff was asking 'round
He went out to Mayhayley's house
Asking if it'd be found out
She said that death is coming
Well the sheriff knew of Mayhayley too
And when he'd run near out of clues
He went to see her on a full moon
And said "I need to find a body"
She took hairs from a possum's leg
Spat 'em into the firing red
The flames fore wild and hung her head
And said "ashes on the water"
Hey, let's go down
Let's go down to Mayhayleys house
They say, she's crazy
Hey, what you wanna know now
Ask Mayhayley and you'll find out
They say, she's crazy
Well the sheriff found the ash and bone
On a creek bed by the Wallace home
He jailed him, trialed and him send on
His way by way of life
Mayhayley saw her fortune grow
People lined up and down the road
They found out things they didn't know
When they keep the hid from hiding
Hey, let's go down
Let's go down to Mayhayley's house
They say, she's crazy
Hey, what you wanna know now
Ask Mayhayley and you'll find out
They say, she's crazy
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