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