I am a man of constant sorrow, I've seen trouble all of my days
I'll bid farewell to old Kentucky, the place where I was born and raised.
Oh, six long years, I've been blind, friends, my pleasures here on earth are done
In this world I have to ramble, for I have no parents to help me now.

"Farewell Song" ("Man of Constant Sorrow") sts. 1 and 2, in Songs Sung by R. D. Burnett—The Blind Man—Monticello, Kentucky (1913). Cited in Steve Sullivan, Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, vol. 2 (Scarecrow Press, 2013) pp. 254–255

There is some uncertainty as to whether Dick Burnett was the original writer; in an interview he gave towards the end of his life, he was asked about the song and said | Charles Wolfe: "What about this "Farewell Song" – 'I am a man of constant sorrow' – did you write it?" Richard Burnett: "No, I think I got the ballad from somebody – I dunno. It may be my song ..." — Old Time Music, no. 10 (Autumn 1973) p. 8 | Version performed by the "Soggy Bottom Boys" in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | I am a man of constant sorrow I’ve seen trouble all my days I bid farewell to ol' Kentucky The place where I was born and raised. For six long years I’ve been in trouble No pleasure here on earth I've found For in this world I’m bound to ramble I have no friends to help me now.