The Drunkard's Hell by The Stanley Brothers
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8KlK2YBL5A
CD: The Stanley Brothers--The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers (1949-1952)
Lyrics and Music Trad. arranged by Ralph and Carter Stanley
Standard Tuning
No Capo
Key: A


[Intro]
   
    


[Verse 1]

It was on one 

dark and starl

ess night
            
I heard and sa

           
w an awful sig

ht
            
The lighting f

              
lashed and the

         
 thunder roare

d
            
All around the

            
 drunkard’s fe

et


[Verse 2]

I started home

 to change my 

life
            
To see my long

           
 neglected wif

e
            
I found her kn

              
eeling by her 


bed
            
She said our d

              
arling baby wa

  
s dead


[Instrumental]
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   


[Verse 3]

I took her by 

her trembling 

hand
            
She was so wea

              
k she could no

  
t stand
            
On bended knee

             
s I prayed a p

rayer
             
That God might

             
 save and prot

       
ect us there


[Verse 4]

Who preached l

ike Paul who o

nce did say
             
Our sins have 

             
all been washe

  
d away
            
That whiskey s

              
tay as far fro

  
m me
             
As the mountai

             
nS are from th

            
e deep blue se

a


[Verse 5]

It was on one 

dark and starl

ess night
            
I heard and sa

           
w an awful sig

ht
            
The lighting f

              
lashed and the

         
 thunder roare

d
            
All around the

             
 drunkard's fe

  
et