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Styxferry County

Jimmy was a lad of just 16 years but he plucked them strings so fine
that he didn't have a lick o' that tremblin' fear for the man in the Lost Souls mine
The man lived there so many a year that he gave the place its name
and from them hills everyone could hear his haunting tunes of pain

JIMMY WENT A-WALKIN' DOWN THE RAILROAD TRACK TO SEE WHAT HE COULD SEE
'BOUT THE BANJO-PICKIN' DEMONIAC FROM STYXFERRY COUNTY

Jimmy went to challenge the men in the mine from Styxferry county
for to fairly aquire his banjo finer than any that could ever be
The Styxferry folk said "Jimmy don't you be no fool for pride,
for many have went and nobody won't come lookin' for you inside."

CHORUS

Jimmy got there about 1/2 past dusk and climbed on down the shaft
and the air was a flavor of sulferous musk from the hot hell-mouth outdraft
Then a ghostly voice come a-echoin' up from the black abysmal depth
said "Go back to yer mamma you gutless pup, don't you take another step."

CHORUS

Jimmy said "Be still you bedevilled man, I ain't afeared o' you,
I've come to best you if I can in a banjo-pickin' duel."
"If you can beat me I'll go home and you can keep my soul,
but if I win your demon roams and I keep your banjo."

CHORUS

The unclean man just laughed and said "Thet sounds right fair to me!"
Then he cracked poor Jimmy upon his head and kicked him in the teeth.
He swung that fine old instrument just like a miner's pick
an eternal life of pain to vent 'till the beatin' made Jimmy sick.

CHORUS

He said "Looks like I beat you good and my pickin's made you bleed
now leave my mine just like you should and leave your soul indeed
Jimmy were lucky to leave alive but he weren't the same again
He'd rather he did not survive than live each day in dread

So don't be wreckless like young Jim do what Huck or Sawyer'd do
If you deal with demon don't you be thick just bring a lawyer, too

CHORUS...
JIMMY WENT A-LIMPIN' UP THE RAILROAD TRACK SINCE HE'D BEEN FAIRLY BEAT
HE LEFT HIS SOUL WITH THE DEMONIAC FROM STYXFERRY COUNTY

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