Mayhayley's House

Down in the shade of the knotty pine Lives an old woman with a marble hide Done as a hay, thin and vine and worn as bible pages She was born with a veil – a seer's sign A preacher's tongue and a lawyer's mind She'd tell your fortune for a buck and a dime The oracle of ages Hey, let's go down Let's go down to Mayhayley's house They say, she's crazy Hey, what you wanna know now Ask Mayhayley and you'll find out They say, she's crazy John Mollis was a wealthy man Cattle, people, liquor, land He caught the wind of a thieving hand And he killed the man who wronged him Though when he heard the sheriff was asking 'round He went out to Mayhayley's house Asking if it'd be found out She said that death is coming Well the sheriff knew of Mayhayley too And when he'd run near out of clues He went to see her on a full moon And said "I need to find a body" She took hairs from a possum's leg Spat 'em into the firing red The flames fore wild and hung her head And said "ashes on the water" Hey, let's go down Let's go down to Mayhayleys house They say, she's crazy Hey, what you wanna know now Ask Mayhayley and you'll find out They say, she's crazy Well the sheriff found the ash and bone On a creek bed by the Wallace home He jailed him, trialed and him send on His way by way of life Mayhayley saw her fortune grow People lined up and down the road They found out things they didn't know When they keep the hid from hiding Hey, let's go down Let's go down to Mayhayley's house They say, she's crazy Hey, what you wanna know now Ask Mayhayley and you'll find out They say, she's crazy