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Shenandoah
03:09
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Shanandoah, how long will I miss you
Tonight you're far away as my September Blue
And I know you've got a secret of mine or two
Tonight, little darlin, my heart's with you
All that's between us, felt the cannon ball blues
Maybe I really did see the light
Halfway to heaven's pretty far
But I could not be sure
Halfway isn't all there ever was
But I know you've got a secret of yours or two
Tonight, little darlin, my heart's with you
There's just so much a man can miss
And just no end to what he can regret
And I'm holdin' on to whatever hope I can get
Because tonight my heart ain't done hurting yet
Tonight, little darlin, my heart's with you
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I say "no"
02:37
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Some people say
"Arise! Arise! Arise! Live friend live!"
I say: "Die."
I say: "Shade yourself."
I say: "Shine what precious light you have into caves,
And when it dies out stay in there"
I say "find life where you foolishly saw graves."
Some people say to "Try and try and try!
Fight and save yourself!"
I say: "Give".
I say "Send them off."
I say "Shed whatever husk if you are ripe,
And if you're not, be fragrant then"
I say: "Give. No matter how it hurts, give in!"
Some people say "The sky! The sky! The sky!
Have you noticed it"
I close my eyes, I say nothing now.
There's a ringing in my ears that's faint and high,
And when I listen close to it, it says:
" "
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Autumn Leaves
01:33
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In the beautiful hills in the midst of Roane Country
It's there that I labored my whole life away
It's there that my heart is a-turnin' most ever
It's there the first steps of misfortune I made
I's about thirty years when I courted and married
Miss Armanda Gilbert to be my fair wife
For some unknown reason her brother Tom stabbed me
And not two months later, I'd taken Tom's life
I's captured and tried in a village of Kingsport
Not a soul in that village could say a kind word
When a jury come in with the verdict next morning
"A lifetime in prison" are the words that I heard
Well my Mama come down to see me at the station
My sweet sister Donna sat there by her side
They turned for to go, but I was chained to the platform
They said, "Willie, God bless you, God bless you, goodbye"
In the scorching hot sands of a foundry, I'm toiling
Just a-toilin' and sweatin' my poor life away
When I die, bury me on the banks of old Cumberland
In the beautiful green hills of east Tennessee
In the beautiful hills in the midst of Roane Country
It's there that I labored my whole life away
It's there that my heart is a-turnin' most ever
It's there the first steps of misfortune I made
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Fingerstyle Suite
04:03
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Ugly Beauty
01:41
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Dan Filler Columbus, Ohio
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