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Lucille, Lucille
02:20
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Lucille, Lucille I’m coming home
To take you for a ride
These winter days have ground me down
And I long to see you smile.
Lucille, Lucille I don’t know why
This world should treat me so
For all my sins I must’ve paid by now
Why won’t they let me go?
Lucille, Lucille you teach the sun
To swim across the sky
You make the rivers all to run
And the autumn wind to sigh.
A man would walk one thousand miles
To stand outside your door
Oh won’t you turn your pretty head
And smile on me once more?
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One Morning in May
03:26
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One morning, one morning, one morning in May
I watched through my window as he marched away.
Through fields lately blooming, they sang as they went
The sons of the poor, ‘til their blood all was spent.
Oh my, my, who’s gonna pay
For every sweetheart taken this way?
Oh my, my who will replace
Your sons and your daughters when they’re gone away?
Oh darlin’, my darlin’, don’t grieve for me so
I’ll come home a hero before the first snow.
They have no hope against us, our numbers are too strong;
You must stop your cryin’ for nothing can go wrong.
Oh mother, dear mother, I’ve seen all the signs
I know I’m a-slippin’, and wanderin’ in my mind.
Oh take me to that river and let me wade across,
There’s no point in lingerin’; our battles all are lost.
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Sylvie
04:26
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Rose or the Briar
03:12
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Every Day
02:57
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Every day I’m waiting for a sign to take me
to the place where it all began.
I see birds like omens flying down
so low
Looking for a dry place to land.
And I try to return
to the place where I grew.
But it’s so high above me now,
I can’t pull myself through.
In the deepest ocean lies a seabed meadow
Where the purest wildflowers grow.
Through a velvet forest sails a ship
that drifted there
A thousand years ago.
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Solid Ground
02:46
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At the top of the stairs it’s a long way to fall
A mighty sad way to go.
If the waiting makes you restless and impatient to start
Just remember, you’re too young to know.
So meet me at the top and I’ll take you down
I’ll plant your feet on solid ground.
The way can be lonely, ragged and steep
But you’ll rest at the end of the day.
A prisoner might think he longs to be free
When he looks on the hills and the sky
But when his pardon comes down and they open the gate
He turns round and walks back inside.
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On the Other Side
02:40
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Weep Not For Me
04:28
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My darling why are you crying?
Your face looks so pale and drawn.
Try not to think of your troubles;
They’ll fade away with the dawn.
My heart is so heavy tonight, love”
She said without raising her head.
“I don’t know what has come o’er me,
But I need to take to my bed.”
Sleep easy tonight my love
I’ll return with the morning light
You know I will never forsake you
So weep not for me tonight.
The whipporwill cried at my window
And the wind made a low mournful sound.
I went to go for the doctor
But it was a long way to town.
The doctor and I traveled quickly
Through that long night with no rest
But he said she’d long since departed
When he laid his hand to her breast.
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Hungrytown Road
04:25
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There’s a road that leads out of this town
And one day gonna follow it down
I’m going down the Hungrytown Road
‘Til I reach the place I belong.
I got married when I was just a young girl
And I’d never seen much of the world
I learned how to fight with the ones that I love
And to pay for the words that I said.
Well I saved and I worked everyday
But I never seemed to put much away
It’s too low a price for a life that’s so dear
So I guess I’ll be moving along
I look up at the mountains so high
Their treetops are brushing the sky
And I know there’s a road that leads past those hills
But I wonder how far it will take me.
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November Song
03:18
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Through the hills as the streams do flow
That’s the way she always seems to go.
As autumn trees burn against the sky
So shines the color in my true love’s eyes.
The summer grass it grows green and high
And bows before her as she walks by
November chill turns the fields to gold
And I hate to leave her but I’m bound to go.
Jumping high you can catch the sun
Turn the clock back when the day is done
Teach the sea to forsake the shore
Stop the young men marching on to war.
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12. |
With Tomorrow
03:24
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Hungrytown Townshend, Vermont
After more than fifteen years of world-wide touring and three album releases, Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson--otherwise known as the folk duo Hungrytown--have earned a reputation for the quality and authenticity of their songwriting.
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