Maria McKee - Appalachian Boy lyrics

My Appalachian boy Will you be mine? With your eyes as black as the coal in the hollers I'd trade my railway sack, turn my back, forsake all others To hang your supper on a line Will you be mine? Will you be mine? My Appalachian boy Are you the only one? Let my heart be still 'neath the hickory, cool and shady To haunt those hills where your momma met your daddy I'd die a thousand times Will you be mine? Will you be mine? And if we should never meet again If I should fall in to the arms of a fistful of other men Die one day and meet those gates and they decide to let me in There you'll be lookin' just like you did the day we met Till then, I just don't know what I believe in now What is love but ties, lies and broken vows So wait, don't be afraid My heart has many things to show you I'll wait--long the days--the time it takes to really know you And you are a good man And I will understand you I will understand