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Ballad of Alvin Mac

from On the Lam and Lonesome by Brooks Forsyth

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Alvin Mac was a lumberjack worker
In the days of postbellum Alabam
And there always seemed to be contention
Between him and his boss man

While downtown with his son at a local parade
His boss struck him with a two by four
So Alvin took his son back to his home place
Then returned and shot his boss to the floor

The lawmen chased him into the swamps of Greenville
With a pack of hungry blood hounds
But Alvin was well versed in hound training
And drove that pack back towards the town

Alvin left them lawmen a-waitin'

He hopped a freight train out to Waco, Texas
His wife wrote him when she caught word
Said the lawmen have given their promise
Of no conviction if you return

He decided to hop on an eastbound train
But was told there was a trap at the station
No one knows if jumped off or hid on that train
But he left them lawmen a-waitin'

Alvin left them lawmen a-waitin'

Twenty years passed, his wife and son had long left town
The crime the law could barely recall
But Alvin's brother received some letters from Arizona
From a lumberjack named Bud Stovall

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from On the Lam and Lonesome, released June 13, 2016

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Brooks Forsyth Boone, North Carolina

Hailing from the mountains of North Carolina, Brooks Forsyth is a musician of Appalachia and beyond. Encompassing a variety of sounds in Americana, he has a large repertoire of original songs, and a versatile guitar style consisting of both flatpicking and fingerpicking. Throughout the last seventeen years, Brooks has performed solo and with a variation of musical ensembles across the U.S.A. ... more

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