Rosalee

Album: So Long Little Miss Sunshine (2025)
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  • Off a no-name road on Chickasaw Bluff
    Feel the hair on the back of your neck stand up
    When you see those cypress roots that wind
    'Round a marble stone, says "Bill O'Brien"
    Legend lives, the old folks tell
    The ghost of a lawman haunts these hills
    Looking for the woman that shot him down
    And the .44 that was never found
    Under that Chickasaw ground

    Rosalee
    You better run before they hunt you down in Tennessee
    Damn that deputy
    'Cause a jealous heart ain't worth the cost of hanging from the gallows tree
    And what if they find out just who fired the gun?
    Rosalee, you better run

    More thorn than rose, how oft' they'd say
    Of the girl with the golden hair in braids
    Raven eyes and her copper kettle
    Charmed the hearts of the best bootleggers
    Bill O'Brien moved in on the bluff
    He laid the law down a little too rough
    Busting every keg and still
    'Til he fell in love with that whiskey gal
    If I can't have her, no man will

    Rosalee
    You better run before they hunt you down in Tennessee
    Damn that deputy
    'Cause a jealous heart ain't worth the cost of hanging from the gallows tree
    And what if they find out just who fired the gun?
    Rosalee, you better run

    What if they knew Miss Betty Lou had seen him at the dance that night?
    What if they noticed Otis Johnson begging him not to fight?
    What if they heard his final words layin' by the cypress tree?
    Rosalee, Rosalee

    Off a no-name road on Chickasaw Bluff
    There's a wise old woman with a whiskey jug
    Some say saint, some say killer
    They never could prove who pulled that trigger
    Beneath those cypress roots that wind
    The secret died with Bill O'Brien
    He'll follow her to the depths of hell
    Mix love and whiskey, it won't end well
    Sometimes you can hear him yell

    Rosalee
    You'd better run before they hunt you down in Tennessee
    Damn that deputy
    'Cause a jealous heart ain't worth the cost of hanging from the gallows tree
    And what if they find out just who fired the gun?
    Rosalee, you better run

    Rosalee
    Rosalee Writer/s: Dallas Wilson, Ketch Secor, Molly Tuttle, Trannie Anderson
    Publisher: AMPLIFIED ADMINISTRATION, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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