Goodnight Tender-Amy Ray
Goodnight sweet Tender, the veil is on the loom
The coyotes are yippee yi yaying, they sing a lonesome tune
All of my life I’m a-rambling so you’re in my stead
I like awake and wonder at every bedtime tale
So keep the coals a-glowing and keep my true love dreaming
Goodnight
I met a man wandering down in Harbortown
He begged from me a dollar, he drank the dollar down
He said I am a sailor swallowed by the war
a soldier drenched and salty cast back to the shore
And now I’m good for nothing except to drink and dream
Goodnight
The coyotes are yippee yi yaying, they sing a lonesome tune
All of my life I’m a-rambling so you’re in my stead
I like awake and wonder at every bedtime tale
So keep the coals a-glowing and keep my true love dreaming
Goodnight sweet Tender, goodnight
I met a maiden widowed in a coalman’s town
She said once I had a true love then came the mountain down
And all my relations swallowed by the mines
We worked for the nickels when we needed dimes
They fed us for a while but took us before our time
Goodnight sweet Tender ,the veil is on the loom
The coyotes are yippee yi yaying, they sing a lonesome tune
And I’ll like awake and wonder at every bedtime tale
Goodnight, goodnight...