three little sister barnyard blisters cornhusk dolls and pinesap feet grooms of barley blushing when they ought be milking cow and threshing wheat way hey fiddle aye ay where is our mary run run away took to the cumberland road past may mary mary come home come home way hey fiddle aye ay where is the parson come out and pray dark is the road where the devils play mary mary come home daddy told the dresses comb your tresses cousin clayton were to see bought himself a man and miles of cotton wants for marys chastity mary shook her ribbons none the ready kicked the cart and tipped the bale tugged the bull dog high up to the hayloft father doused her with a pail way hey fiddle aye ay where is our mary run run away took to the cumberland road past may mary mary come home come home way hey fiddle aye ay where is the parson come out and pray dark is the road where the devils play mary mary come home twice barked the dog twice twice wept the sisters father dragged at marys legs mary dripped and kicked til father slipped came crashing down the ladder pegs sweet little children screaming crimson flocked to father on the floor mary cried but when he didn t answer red feet red paws to the door way hey fiddle aye ay where is our mary run run away took to the cumberland road past may mary mary come home come home way hey fiddle aye ay where is the parson come out and pray dark is the road where the devils play mary mary come home summer went missing cold winds hissing leaking roofs and icy groans father shrivelled sunk into a hay sack sisters thinning by his bones somewhere where the road forks left and coils theres a girl of twelve with dog clayton gone and wed himself another mary fading in the fog way hey fiddle aye ay where is our mary run run away took to the cumberland road past may mary mary come home come home way hey fiddle aye ay where is the parson come out and pray dark is the road where the devils play mary mary come way hey fiddle aye ay where is our mary run run away took to the cumberland road past may mary mary come home come home way hey fiddle aye ay where is the parson come out and pray dark is the road where the devils play mary mary come home