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Artist: Dickey "Patches" Lee
Charted by Bobby Bare at # 33 in
1964
Written by Jack H. Clement
(Dark old cave, Miller's Cave)
Way down in the State of Georgia
Through the swamps and everglades
There's a hole in Tiger Mountain
God help the man who gets lost in
Miller's Cave
I had a girl (had a girl) in Waycross,
Georgia (Waycross, Georgia)
But she had unfaithful ways
Made me feel (made me feel) I was
unwanted (so unwanted)
Like the bats and the bears in Miller's
Cave
I couldn't stand the way she did
me
Couldn't take her low-down ways
Before I'll stay with a cheatin'
woman
I'll go live with the bears in Miller's
Cave
(Dark old, dark old cave, dark old cave)
I caught her out (caught her out)
one Sunday mornin' (Sunday mornin')
With a man they called Big Dave
Meanest man (meanest man) in Waycross,
Georgia (Waycross, Georgia)
I'd rather fight a mountain lion
in Miller's Cave
I said "You'll pay" (said "you'll
pay") both you and Davy" (you and Davy)
I'm gonna see you in your graves
They laughed at me (laughed at me)
and then I shot 'em (then I shot 'em)
I took their cheatin', schemin'
bones to Miller's Cave
(Dark old, dark old cave, dark old cave)
That woman made (woman made) me feel
unwanted (so unwanted)
But I showed 'er I was brave
Most wanted man in the State Of
Georgia
<echoing, as if in a cave> but they'll never find me 'cause I'm lost in Miller's Cave
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Bare's
original not available for transcription so this LP version by
Lee is used. It is believed
that the original had no backup singers and that one part was
spoken. Feel free to improve
on this if you have the original.
