Junior Daugherty: Music
Death Valley Waltz
Music by: Junior Daugherty; Words by: Penny and Gus Anderson
"Death Valley Waltz"
On an evening long ago
Just as the sun was sinking low
There came a fiddle man, without a band
Just his fiddle and his bow
The lonliness etched on his face
As from a worn and tattered case
He pulled his fiddle out, and he looked about
And played the "Death Valley Waltz"
CHORUS:
The strange and haunting melody
It still lingers here for me
And how the sadness of the fiddle man
Drifted like the desert sand
There beneath the desert moon
As the old man played his tune
Lovers danced and swayed, as on he played
The "Death Valley Waltz"
(Repeat Chorus)
Does he still haunt the barren land
I wonder, where is the fiddle man
'Cause still sometimes I hear the lonesome cry
Of the "Death Valley Waltz"