White Oak Flats

Old-Time Mountain Song

There's a place in Tennessee, just across the line,
No one ever goes up there, it's too rough a climb,
You won't find the name or place wrote on any map,
Folks down here 'round Shelton's Trace calls it White Oak Flats.

Hazel Taylor was my wife, and I loved her so,
We was married on Shelton's Trace, fifteen years ago,
Now I lie here all alone, wonderin' on the past,
Wonderin' why she left our home to go to White Oak Flats.

I don't know how he looked at her, I don't kno...