American folk song recorded in 1926 by Doctor Coble "Dock" Walsh, old-time banjo player from North Carolina.
Most folks agree that this song (also known as "Where Did You Sleep Last Night") is a mash-up of at least two or three older ballads including "Black Girl" and "The Longest Train", both thought to have been written sometime around the 1870s.
Probably made most famous by Lead Belly in the 1940s, the song has also been notably performed by bands such as Nirvana, during their MTV Unplugged session in 1993.
The ballad has been variously interpreted as being a song about infidelity, retribution, tragic death, or brutal lynching - its opacity probably part of what makes it so haunting.
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In the pines, in the pines where the sun never shined
And I shivered when the cold wind blow
Oh, if I minded what Grandma said, oh were would I've been tonight
I'd've been in the pines where the sun never shined, and then shiverin' when the cold wind blows
The longest train I ever saw went down the Georgia line
The engine, it stopped at a six-mile post, the cabin never left the town
Now darling, now darling, don't tell me no lie. Where did you stay last night?
I stayed in the pines where the sun never shined and I shivered when the cold winds blow
The prettiest little girl that I ever saw was walking down the line
Her hair, it was of a curly type, her cheeks were rosy red
Now darling, now darling, don't tell me no lie. Where did you stay last night?
I stayed in the pines where the sun never shines and I shivered when the cold winds blow
The train run back one mile from town and killed my girl, you know
Her head was caught in the driver wheel, her body I never could find
Now darling, now darling, don't tell me no lie. Where did you stay last night?
I stayed in the pines where the sun never shine and I shivered when the cold winds blow
The best of friends has to part some time, then why not you and I
Now darling, oh darling, don't tell me no lie. Where did you stay last night?
I stayed in the pines where the sun never shine and I shivered when the cold winds blow
Oh, a transfer station has brought me here, take a-money for to carry me away
Now darling, now darling, don't tell me no lie. Where did you stay last night?
I stayed in the pines where the sun never shine and I shivered when the cold winds blow
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