Ghost of Floyd Collins
(Yeah boy i sure do. I r'member yonder back yonder n' the 20's. They said that uhh Floyd Collins he'd been caught in that cave, sand cave down there. Once he got down there he couldn't get out so they just left him down there and they had the sermon for him right there. He just laid there and died.)
The hellhounds walking
On midnight fire
The fog rolls in
And the creek runs higher
They saw him standing
By the railroad tracks
Tonight's the night
Old Floyd's coming back
Downtown
Deep in the ground
It's where his story stays
Down in mammoth cave
Is where his body laid
Walls came in
Life could not be saved
No man-made machine
Could see the things he'd seen
Mr. Collins, he did not die in vain
The strangers moved in
Brought the circus to town
You know there's
People making money
Off the man underground
Somebody said
They wouldn't doin him right
That's why old Floyd's
Coming back tonight
Downtown
Deep in the ground
It's where his story stays
Down in mammoth cave
Is where his body laid
Walls came in
Life could not be saved
No man-made machine
Could see the things he'd seen
Mr. Collins, he did not die in vain
-Solo-
Downtown
Deep in the ground
It's where his story's
So they say
Down in mammoth cave
Is where his body laid
Walls came in
Life could not be saved
No man-made machine
Could see the things he'd seen
Mr. Collins, he did not die in vain
The hellhounds walking
On midnight fire
The fog rolls in
And the creek runs higher
They saw him standing
By the railroad tracks
Tonight's the night
Old Floyd's coming back
Downtown
Deep in the ground
It's where his story stays
Down in mammoth cave
Is where his body laid
Walls came in
Life could not be saved
No man-made machine
Could see the things he'd seen
Mr. Collins, he did not die in vain
The strangers moved in
Brought the circus to town
You know there's
People making money
Off the man underground
Somebody said
They wouldn't doin him right
That's why old Floyd's
Coming back tonight
Downtown
Deep in the ground
It's where his story stays
Down in mammoth cave
Is where his body laid
Walls came in
Life could not be saved
No man-made machine
Could see the things he'd seen
Mr. Collins, he did not die in vain
-Solo-
Downtown
Deep in the ground
It's where his story's
So they say
Down in mammoth cave
Is where his body laid
Walls came in
Life could not be saved
No man-made machine
Could see the things he'd seen
Mr. Collins, he did not die in vain
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Writer(s): Jonathan Michael Lawhon, John Frederick Young, Bob Marlette, Christopher Robertson, Benjamin Daniel Wells, Richard Oren Young
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