Rock Salt and Nails Traditional As Performed by Druha Trava V1 By the banks of the river, where the willows hang down And the wild birds all warble with a low moaning sound Down in the hollow, where the waters run cold It was there I first listened to the lies that she told. V2 scale run Now I lay on my bed and I can see her sweet face The past I remember, time can not erase The letter you wrote me, it was written in shame And I know that your conscience still echoes my name V3 E A E Now the nights so long, your sorrows run deep And nothing is worse, than a night without sleep I’ll walk out alone and look at the sky To empty to sing, to lonesome to cry V4 If the ladies were blackbirds and the ladies were Thrushes I’d lie there for hours, in the chilly cold marshes If the ladies were squirrels, with a high bushy tails I’d fill up my shotgun with rock salt and nails Druha Trava (Second Grass) is a Czeck blugrass band with some international success. See