Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp: Listen & Lyrics

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Once while I was looking through old photos up at MawMaw's I noticed that there were a lot of little photo booth pictures of my Aunt Edith. She was always made up pretty and with a different fella everytime. I asked MawMaw what it all meant and she said that Edith just loved going down to the photo booth when the carnival came to town and having her picture made with boys. One of the photos showed a hollow cheeked boy with flat hair and crooked teeth and I decided to write a song for the poor fella about how he tried to court Aunt Edith. Not a word of it's true, except that Aunt Edith did have quite a flair for fashion.

She kissed me down at the county fair
I paid her a dollar to kiss me again
I heard she saves all her money for fancy clothes
to catch the eye of wealthy men

I can’t get enough of that Jewell Ridge Girl
over my heart she reigns
from that coal black jewel all the sweetness I knew
was a sweetness keen as pain

I told her I was a medical man
but I don’t know nothing but the coal
when her sister told her, she got so mad
the fire in her eyes was a sight to behold

I can’t get enough of that Jewell Ridge Girl
over my heart she reigns
from that coal black jewel all the sweetness I knew
was a sweetness keen as pain

I heard she’s a-working at the company store
she swore she’d kill me if I came round her place
but she gives me a pain right down in my soul
and I’m willin’ to die just to see her face

I can’t get enough of that Jewell Ridge Girl
over my heart she reigns
from that coal black jewel all the sweetness I knew
was a sweetness keen as pain