Girl I Left Behind Me Lyrics

I struck the trail in seventy-nine
The herd strung out behind me
As I jogged along my mind went back
To the gal I left behind

If I ever get off the trail, boys
And the Indians don't find me
I'll make my way straight back again
To the gal I left behind me

That sweet little gal, that true little gal
The gal I left behind me
That sweet little gal, that pretty little gal
The gal I left behind me

The wind did blow and the rain did flow
The hail did fall and blind me
And I thought of that gal, that sweet little gal
That gal I'd left behind me

She wrote ahead to a place I said
And I was glad to find it
She says "I'm true, when you get through
Ride back and you will find me"

That sweet little gal, that true little gal
The gal I left behind me
That sweet little gal, that pretty little gal
The gal I left behind me

When we sold out I took the train
I knew that I would find her
When I got back, we had a smack
And that's no gol-darned liar

That sweet little gal, that true little gal
The gal I left behind me
That sweet little gal, that pretty little gal
The gal I left behind me

Woody Guthrie - Long Ways To Travel: The Unreleased Folkways Masters, 1944-1949

May 1994

1. Hard Traveling
2. Talking Centralia (Talking Miner)
3. Farmer-Labor Train
4. Harriet Tubman's Ballad
5. Warden in the Sky
6. Train Narration
7. Seattle to Chicago
8. Rain Crow Bill
9. Along in the Sun and the Rain
10. Budded Roses
11. Train Ride Medley (part 1): I Ride an Old Paint / Ride Around, Little Dogies / Bed on the Floor / Chicago, Chicago
12. Girl I Left Behind Me
13. Wiggledy Giggledy
14. Kissin' On
15. Rocky Mountain Slim and Desert Rat Shorty
16. Train Ride Medley (part 2): New York City / Baltimore to Washington / Delaware Gap / Lynchburg Town / Blue Eyes / The Girl I Left in Sunny T
17. Long Ways to Travel