Lyrics:

This blood-freezing song is about a woman who kills her would-be rapist and now fears being haunted by his ghost. The spare arrangement evokes the loneliness of the rural setting for the crime.
Caleb Meyer, he lived alone
In them hollerin' pines
And he made a little whiskey for himself
Said it helped to pass the time
Long one evening in back of my house
Caleb come around
And he called my name till I went out
With no one else around

Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
Wear them rattlin' chains
But when I go to sleep at night
Don't you call my name

Where's your husband, Nellie Kane?
Where's your darling gone?
Did he go on down the mountainside
And leave you all alone?
Yes, my husband's gone to Bowlin' Green
To do some business there
Then Caleb threw that bottle down
And grabbed me by my hair

Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
Wear them rattlin' chains
But when I go to sleep at night
Don't you call my name

He threw me in a needle bed
Across my dress he lay
Then he pinned my hands above my head
And I commenced to pray
I cried, 'My God, I am your child
Send your angels down'
Then feelin' with my fingertips
The bottleneck I found
I drew that glass across his neck
As fine as any blade
Then I felt his blood pour fast and hot
Round me where I lay

Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
Wear them rattlin' chains
But when I go to sleep at night
Don't you call my name

Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
Wear them rattlin' chains
But when I go to sleep at night
Don't you call my name