INTRO: I went down to Taneytown I went down to Taneytown To see what I could see My mama told me never go I'm damn near 22 years old Sometimes I feel this holler swallow me She ran off to Gettysburg Went off with that new beau of hers I snuck off after dark It's a long way down the county road The stars were bright and the moon was low Down to where the black top highway starts I went down to Taneytown I went down to Taneytown I went down to see what I could see Now everybody stared at me You'd think that they ain't never seen Well they jumped at me and they called me names And they whoopped me sure but the sheriff came I slipped off ran through the dry goods store Now I ran down Division Street And some of them boys followed me Down to the railroad track Well there was four of them and I can't fight But I got my old Randall knife I cut that boy and I never did look back I went down to Taneytown I went down to Taneytown I went down to see what I could see Across the fields and woods I run Like a bullet from a rabbit gun Back home to my bed Now Ma come in from Gettysburg Her and that new beau of hers Boy you look like hell is all she said A month went by without a word Somebody down the holler heard `Bout that boy they hung He begged those men to spare his life But I dropped my bloody Randall knife He picked it up so they thought he was the one I went down to Taneytown I went down to Taneytown I ain't going back there anymore