Kentucky Queen from Kentucky Queen by Carla Gover

Kentucky Queen

CHORUS
She’ll sing your soul to salvation
She’s the voice of the hillbilly nation
There’s nothing like it in creation
When she makes the mountains ring
On the day that you first hear her
You’ll become a true believer
She’s an Appalachian Diva
And a true Kentucky Queen

It brings chillbumps on your arms
A tingle down your spine
A shiver to your body
When she sings in the pines
First she’s gentle as a river
Up and down a lonesome scale
Then she’s mournful as a coal-train
With an aching, far-off wail

She’s got coal dust in her blood
Soup beans in her bowl
Cornbread in her skillet
And wisdom in her soul
If these mountain had a voice
It would sound a lot like hers
It can wrap you in compassion
Or convict you with a word

CHORUS





BRIDGE
So sing glory hallelujah
Or a lonesome lullaby
Make the people shout and holler
Make an old coal miner cry
Sing the L&N don’t stop here
Or that good old Hook & Line
I’m going ‘round this world, baby mine

She’ll pick a banjo on the porch
Tune as crooked as a creek
And when the fiddle starts to playing
She’ll have to move her feet
But come morning she’ll be singing
Like a sparrow in a tree
She sings because she’s happy
She sings because she’s free

She’ll sing your soul to salvation
She’s the voice of the hillbilly nation
There’s nothing like it in creation
When she makes the mountains ring
On the day that you first hear her
You’ll become a true believer
She’s an Appalachian Diva
And a true Kentucky Queen

(Far-off voices sing one chorus of ‘In The Pines’)

• Appalachian
• Appalachian Folk
• Folk
• Kentucky
• americana roots
• singer-songwriter
• Lexington