Ramshackle Shack On The Hill

Lyrics: Cliff Carlisle?
Music: Cliff Carlisle?

Played by Phil Lesh and Friends in 2013 at a hoe-down with the Terrapin Family Band. This is the Stanley Brothers' version:

I can hear the whippoorwill
Softly singing out the message from the hill
Nevermore will I roam from my old Kentucky home
And that ramshackle shack on the hill

There's a path that leads back to that ramshackle shack
On the hills of old Kentucky far away
Where my sweethearts waiting there, with her smile and face so fair
For I dreamed that we'd be happy there someday

I can hear the whippoorwill
Softly singing out the message from the hill
Nevermore will I roam from my old Kentucky home
And that ramshackle shack on the hill

Many years have I roamed from my old Kentucky home
And the friends that I loved there so well
But I'm going back today, and I'm going back to stay
I'm going back to never say farewell

I can hear the whippoorwill
Softly singing out the message from the hill
Nevermore will I roam from my old Kentucky home
And that ramshackle shack on the hill

I can hear the whippoorwill
Softly singing out the message from the hill
Nevermore will I roam from my old Kentucky home
And that ramshackle shack on the hill

Oh my mind is drifting back to that ramshackle shack
In the hills of old Kentucky far away
Oh I never thought I'd yearn, and someday that I'd return
To that ramshackle shack there someday

I can hear the whippoorwill
Softly sending his message from the hill
I will nevermore roam from my old Kentucky home
And that ramshackle shack on the hill

I've a sweethearts waiting there, with her smile and face so fair
There beneath the smiling honeysuckle vine
We'll be happy as can be in that land of melody
When I kiss her and I know that she is mine

I can hear the whippoorwill
Softly sending his message from the hill
I will nevermore roam from my old Kentucky home
And that ramshackle shack on the hill