back in the days of my childhood life was simple and passed by so slow we lived on a farm beyond the backwoods in the valley where the pigeon river flows id get up every morning with the rising sun and work the land with my hands and a hoe in the afternoon id slip off when the chores were done to the one place momma warned me not to go poison cove so many years ago but its like yesterday within my memory poison cove i was only ten years old still i carry your secrets round with me i was headed home one evening along about twilight when i came upon a moonshine still the bootleg man was waiting for a gunfight cause a revenuer was coming down the hill hid there in the shadows and too scared to run i held my breath and didnt make a sound i heard the fiery blast from a shotgun then i saw the lawman fall to the ground poison cove so many years ago but its like yesterday within my memory poison cove i was only ten years old still i carry your secrets round with me in that moment my life was forever changed now im haunted by what cant be undone i still see the lawman dying on that mountain range and my daddy holding the smoking gun poison cove so many years ago but its like yesterday within my memory poison cove i was only ten years old still i carry your secrets round with me yes i carry your secrets round with me