ALL THE GOOD TIMES ARE PAST AND GONE
(Traditional)


Fred & Gertrude Gossett - 1930
Steve Ledford & Buffalo Rodgers - 1932
The Monroe Brothers - 1937
The Ozark Boys - 1941
Bill Clifton & The Dixie Mountain Boys - 1954
Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys - 1960
The Kentucky Colonels - 1965
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys - 1971
Kathy Kallick - 2001
David Grisman - 2003
Lizzy Long, Earl Scruggs & Little Roy Lewis - 2007

Also recorded by:  Hylo Brown & The Timberliners; 
Red White & The Dixie Blue Grass Band; Jim Eanes; 
Doodoo Wah; Ritt Deitz: ......... and others.





I wish to the Lord I'd never been born
Or died when I was young
I never would have seen your sparkling blue eyes
Or heard your lying tongue

All the good times are past and gone
All the good times are o'er
All the good times are past and gone
Little darlin', don't weep no more

Don't you see that passing train 
Coming around the bend 
It's taking away my own true love 
Never to return again

Don't you see that turtle dove
That flies from pine to pine
He's mourning for his own true love
Just like I mourn for mine

If you see my own true love
There's something I want you to tell her
Tell her to quit wastin' her time
Runnin' 'round with some other feller

Woody knows nothin' but peckin' on a bow
Under skies of blue
I never knew 'til I met you
What love, oh love could do

Come back, come back, my own true love
And stay awhile with me
For if ever I've had a friend in this world
You've been that friend to me

All the good times are past and gone
All the good times are o'er
All the good times are past and gone
Little darlin', don't weep no more