If I'd only listened to what my mama said I would not be here today A lying around this old jailhouse Wasting my poor life away If I was on some foggy mountain top I'd sail away to the West I'd sail all around this whole wide would To the girl I love the best Oh she caused me to weep and she caused me to mourn She caused me to leave my home Oh the lonesome pines and the good old times I'm on my way back home Now if you see that girl of mine There's something you can tell her She need not fool her time away To court some other feller