coleman bonner was a fiddle playing fool he s a backwoods rounder and a breaker of mules coleman bonners got a wore out bow hes been playing two days down the new cut road now colemans little sister said you better act right coleman daddy s gone to louisville hell be back tonight hes going to get another wagon and a good pair of mules well we re going to move to texas we just waiting on you now colemans daddy he pulled up in the yard he said pack up your lives kids its getting too hard kentuckys alright but theres too many people oh just the other day i thought i saw a church steeple now coleman said daddy don t you worry about me i m going to stay here in kentucky till the day i leave i m going to drink that sour mash and i m gonna race that mare i ve got me a woman with the fox red hair now yall been moving west since the day you go married well i m getting off the wagon daddy i m too old to be carried i m going to stay here in kentucky where that bluegrass grows and i m going to play it all night down the new cut road  now colemans daddy said whats it all coming to young people these days are just as stubborn as mules well you cant make him go hes too old for that its that damned old fiddle and that bowler hat now colemans mama said let the boy stay cause he was raised up solid he can find his own way but as for me honey i m with you i always thought kentucky was just passing through now colemans little sister well she started in a crying and his daddy shook his head for the very last time colemans mama said somebody got to do it there wouldn t be no kentucky unless you didn t stick to it coleman coleman bonner stood on the porch of that cabin and he watched em all go to texas in a covered wagon and he pulled out his fiddle and rosined up his bow and he played a little tune called the new cut road 