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And Then I'm Going Home 2001

by Atwater-Donnelly

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Bright Morning Stars 03:16
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Bright morning stars are rising (3x) Day is a-breakin' in my soul And where are our dear fathers Oh where are our dear fathers They're down in the valley a-prayin' Day is a-breakin' in my soul And where are our dear mothers Oh where are our dear mothers They've gone up to heaven a-shouting Day is a-breakin' in my soul And how can I be lonely When you are ever near me Such wondrous love surrounds me Day is a-breakin' in my soul Bright morning stars are rising (3x) Day is a-breakin' in my soul
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The Prodigal Son 05:03
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When I left my father's house, I was well supplied, I made a mistake and I did go, and I'm dissatisfied. Chorus: And I believe I'll go back home, I believe I'll go back home I believe I'll go back home, and acknowledge I've done wrong. I'll go back to my father's house and fall down on my face. I'll say "I am unworthy", and seek a servant's place...Chorus I'll go back to my father's house; the place I love so dear. There they have bread to eat; I'm a-starvin' here...Chorus Instrumental Father's seen him coming; he met him with a smile. He threw his arms around him, says, "This is my wandering child."...Chorus Father says to his servants, "Go kill the fatted calf. Invite both friends and relatives; my son's come home at last."...Chorus The banquet's in position; all sorrow had passed. Father's heart is filled with joy; his son's come home at last...Chorus Instrumental The elder son was jealous; I believe I heard him say, "You gave my brother his portion; but I never went away...Chorus Father says to his elder son, "You've been both good and kind. Not a fatted calf I've given thee, but all I have is thine."...Chorus 2X
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Two Sisters 10:09
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There was an old man in the North Country, bow down There was an old man in the North Country, bow and bend to me There was an old man in the North Country, he had daughters fair to see I will be true, true to my love, love if my love will be true to me The old man gave the little one a hat, bow down The old man gave the little one a hat, bow and bend to me The old man gave the little one a hat, the other sister couldn't stand that I will be true, true to my love, love if my love will be true to me She said go put your new hat on, bow down She said go put your new hat on, bow and bend to me She said go put your new hat on, And we'll go down by the old mill pond I will be true, true to my love, love if my love will be true to me They walked down by the mill pond's brim, bow down They walked down by the mill pond's brim, bow and bend to me They walked down by the mill pond's brim, The old one pushed the little one in I will be true, true to my love, love if my love will be true to me Oh, sister, sister, give me your hand, bow down Oh, sister, sister, give me your hand, bow and bend to me Oh, sister, sister, give me your hand, And you may have my house and land I will be true, true to my love, love if my love will be true to me She pushed her further out from the shore, bow down She pushed her further out from the shore, bow and bend to me She pushed her further out from the shore, All for the sake of the hat she wore I will be true, true to my love, love if my love will be true to me Instrumental The miller saw her floating about, bow down The miller saw her floating about, bow and bend to me The miller saw her floating about, He took his hook and he drew her out I will be true, true to my love, love if my love will be true to me He took off all of her fine gold rings, bow down He took off all of her fine gold rings, bow and bend to me He took off all of her fine gold rings, And pushed her back in the water again I will be true, true to my love, love if my love will be true to me The miller was hanged for the deadly sin, bow down The miller was hanged for the deadly sin, bow and bend to me The miller was hanged for the deadly sin, The older sister ought to have been I will be true, true to my love, love if my love will be true to me
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The Devil and the Farmer's Wife 04:14
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Well, there was an old man, lived up on the hill And if he ain't moved away he's a-living there still Chorus: Singing, hi diddle li,diddle li fi,diddle li,diddle li,ay Well the devil came up to the farmer one day He said "One of your family I'm gonna take away."...Chorus "Well, please don't take my eldest son, 'Cause there's work on the farm and it's gotta be done."...Chorus "But you can have my scolding wife, By heaven she's the curse of my life."...Chorus So he put the old lady upon his back And they went off to hell with a clickety-clack...Chorus And then they got on down to the fork in the road, He said "Golly woman, you're one devil of a load!"...Chorus And then they got on down to the gates of hell, He said "Stoke up the fire boys, we'll roast her well."...Chorus Instrumental Well now, one little devil with a ball and chain She up with her slipper and kicked in his brain...Chorus And then two little devils come peepin' round the door She up with her slipper, killed ninety-nine more...Chorus And then ten little devils come runnin' down the hall Saying "Take her back daddy, she'll murder us all!"...Chorus So he put the old lady upon his back He said "Come on woman I'm takin' you back."...Chorus Instrumental Well, the farmer he up and looked out a crack He said "Oh my stars, he's bringing her back!"...Chorus So he crawled himself up under the bed But she yanked him out by the hair of his head...Chorus "Well now, here's your wife, I hope she's well If I'd kept her any longer, she'd ruin hell."...Chorus "Now I've been a devil most all of my life But I never been to hell till I took your wife."...Chorus And this proves that the women are better than the men 'Cause they go down to hell and they come back again...Chorus
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Uncle Boo Boo Story #1 01:03
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Angel Band 04:20
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My latest sun is sinking fast, my race is nearly run My strongest trials now are past, my triumph is begun Chorus: Oh, come, angel band, come and around me stand Oh bear me away on your snowy wings To my immortal home Oh bear me away on your snowy wings To my immortal home I know I'm near the holy ranks Of friends and kindred dear I've brushed the dew on Jordan's banks The crossing must be near...Chorus Instrumental I've almost gained my heavenly home My spirit loudly sings The holy ones, behold, they come I hear the noise of wings...Chorus
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Laundry 01:42
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i have folded a generation of clothing For today is your twentieth birthday And I'm looking at old photographs Here you are on the ferry With your light blue over-sized T-shirt I remember it's slow thinning over years through washing How you loved that shirt And then one day you put a green garbage bag in the kitchen And said, "These are clothes you can give away." I remember also the gradual growing of the trousers They were so little at first Easy to wash Holding them fresh out of the laundry I would snap the legs to remove creases And then when the pants got bigger and exceeded my own I was the littlest one in the basket How many times I have stood at those machines Folded your shirts three ways And wondered how you were doing In forth grade, in seventh grade, in high school The years chronicle themselves by clothing and haircuts Here you shaved one side of your head And for months wore a shirt that said, "whatever" Now, only weeks ago you've moved out Soon to buy your own garments Perhaps trade with friends And when you visit to use the machines You will carry your soiled laundry Packed tight into the black hamper And pass over my threshold in stranger's clothing A T-shirt I don't know Unacquainted frayed pants And mis-matched socks I never bought
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Drowned Lovers 06:21
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Willie sits in his stable door and he's combing his coal black steed He's doubting on fair Margaret's love and his heart begins to bleed "Give corn unto me horse, mother, and meat to my man John And I'll away to fair Margaret's bower before the night comes on" "Stay at home with me, dear Willie, oh stay at home with me And the very best cock in all the roost, your own supper will be" "For all your cock's and all your roosts, I value not a pin And I'll away to fair Margaret's bower before the night comes in" "Well if you go to fair Margaret's bower without the leave of me In the deepest part of the Clyde water, then drowned you shall be" "Oh the good steed that I ride upon cost me thrice thirty pounds And I'll put trust in his swift feet to take me safe and sound" And he's ridden o'er yon high, high hill and down yon dowey den And the rushing of the Clyde water would fear five hundred men "Oh roaring Clyde, you roar so loud, your streams are wondrous strong Make me a wreck as I come back but spare me as I'm going" Instrumental And when he's got to fair Margaret's bower he's turled low on the pin "Rise up, rise up me May Margaret, rise up an let me in." "Oh who is that at me bower door calling May Margaret's name" "Oh it's only her first love little Willie this night come to her home" "Well, open up your gates this night; oh open and let me in For me boots are full of the Clyde water and I'm frozen to the skin" "Me barns are full of corn, Willie, and the stables full of hay And me bowers are full of gentlemen and they won't remove til day" "Well, fare thee well then me May Margaret, fare thee well and adieu For I have won my mother's own curse by coming this night to you" And he's ridden o'er yon high, high hill and down yon dowey den And the rushing of the Clyde water took Willie's hat from him And he's leaned him o'er his saddle bow to catch his hat again And the rushing of the Clyde water took Willie's cane from him And he's leaned him o'er his saddle bow to catch his cane by force And the rushing of the Clyde water took Willie from his horse The very hour this young man sank into the part so deep Up and awoke miss May Margaret out from her dreary sleep "Come here, come here me mother dear and read to me my dream I dreamt my love was at our gate and no one let him in." "Lie there, lie there me May Margaret, lie there and take your rest For since your love was at our gate it's but two quarters past." Nimbly, nimbly rose she up unto the water's brim And the louder that this young girl cried, the louder grew the wind The very first step that she went in, she's up unto her feet And it's "Oh and alas," this young girl cried, "Your water's wondrous deep" The very next step that she went in, she's up unto her knees Cried she, "I would go further still, if my true lover could see." The very next step that she went in, she's up unto her chin And in the deepest part of the Clyde water she found sweet William in She said, "You've had a cruel mother, Willie, and I have had another And now we sleep in the Clyde water like sister and like brother" Saying, "You've had a cruel mother, Willie, and I have had another And now we sleep in the Clyde water like sister and like brother"
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The Scotsman 03:17
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A Scotsman clad in kilt left the bar one evening fair And one could tell by how he walked he'd drunk more than his share He stumbled 'round until he could no longer keep his feet Then he stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street Chorus: Ring-ding diddle-liddle aye-dee-oh, Ring-aye diddle-aye-oh (repeat last line of previous verse) About that time two young and lovely girls just happened by And one said to the other with a twinkle in her eye See young sleeping Scotsman so strong and handsome built I wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath their kilts...Chorus They snuck up to that Scotsman oh as quiet as could be And lifted up his skirt about an inch so they could see And there behold for them to view beneath his Scottish skirt Was nothing more than God had graced him with upon his birth...Chorus They marveled for a moment then one said we must be gone Let's leave a present for our friend before we move along And as a gift they left a blue silk ribbon tied in a bow Around the bonny star the Scotsman's kilt did lift and show...Chorus The Scotsman woke to nature's call and headed for a tree Behind a bush he lifts his skirt and gawks at what he sees In a startled voice he says to what's before his eyes Oh, lad I don't know where you've been But I see you've won first prize...Chorus
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Imagine Peace 02:53
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Four Marys 04:46
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Last night there were four Marys Tonight there'll be but three There was Mary Beaton and Mary Seaton And Mary Carmichael and me Oh, word has gone to the kitchen And word has gone to the hall That Mary Hamilton is with child To the highest stewart of all He courted her in the kitchen He courted her in the hall He courted her down in the low cellar And that was the worst of all Instrumental She's taken her wee little baby And cast it out into the sea "Sink ye or swim ye my bonnie wee child "But be no more with me" They've taken her down to the sheriff's court Where she did laugh and sigh Before she had come back again She was condemned to die Last night there were four Marys Tonight there'll be but three There was Mary Beaton and Mary Seaton And Mary Carmichael and me "Oh often I have dressed my queen And put on her fine silk gown And all I've gotten for my reward Is to be hanged in Edinburgh town"
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Young Man Who Wouldn't Raise Corn 03:13
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Come all young people and listen to my song I'll tell you about a young man who wouldn't raise corn The reason why I cannot tell This young man was always well In the month of June he planted his corn In July he laid it by, In October there came a frost The seed of his corn this young man lost He goeth down and he peepeth in The weeds and the grass grew up to his chin The weeds and the grass they grew so high Caused this young man for to cry He goeth down to his near neighbor's land Goin' a-courtin' as I understand Goin' a-courtin' as sure as your born "Kind sir, have you wed your corn?" "Yes,my dear," in reply, "Yes,my dear, I've laid it by, But it ain't worthwhile to strive in vain. I don't believe to my soul it's gonna raise one grain." "Well a healthy young man that won't raise corn Is the laziest man that ever was born Single I am and single I'll remain A lazy man I won't maintain." Come all young people and listen to my song I'll tell you about a young man who wouldn't raise corn The reason why I cannot tell This young man was always well Come all young people and listen to my song I'll tell you about a young man who wouldn't raise corn The reason why I cannot tell This young man was always well This young man was always well This young man was always well
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Uncle Boo Boo Story #2 02:38
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Going Up Home 04:32
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Troubles and trials often betray us Causing our weary bodies to stray But we shall walk beside the still waters With the good shepherd leading the way Chorus: Going up home to live in green pastures Where we shall live and die never more Even the lord will be in that number When we have reached that heavenly shore Those who have strayed were sought by the master He who once gave his life for the sheep Out on the mountain still he is searching Bringing them in forever to keep...Chorus We will not heed the voice of the stranger For he would lead us unto despair Following on with our loving master We shall all reach that country so fair...Chorus 2X
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Sign 01:26
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Elwood says, if you go with Aubrey you won't see deer I used my chance 4th of July weekend I asked for a sign Saying alone in the dark car "If there's a God, or anything, show me a deer tonight." But I didn't see a soul In the morning my mother heard the cry from the guest room "Aubrey, come look!" A lone fawn called out in the bright day There was my tardy sign A little lost baby I guess that's what God could come up with in a pinch Well, now here it is after the New Year And I haven't seen a deer since Everyone in town sees them Last week Officer Mooney even hit a six-pointer with his cruiser They cross the roads in all sizes Traversing their runs Hunters emerge from the woods, orange-vested with kill Elwood says we can even speed through the dark roads with me in the car For all I see are pointy tracks in snow and mud Earthy, ghostly signs Teasing, saying, "Next time, don't ask."
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Lord Franklin 04:33
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'Twas homeward bound one night on the deep Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep I dreamed a dream and I thought it true Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew With a hundred seamen he sailed away To the frozen ocean in the month of May To seek that passage around the pole Where we poor seamen do sometimes go Through cruel hardships his men they strove Their ship on mountains of ice was drove Where the eskimo in a skin canoe Was the only one who ever came through In Baffin's Bay where the whalefish blow The fate of Franklin no one may know The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell Lord Franklin with his sailors do dwell Instrumental And now my burden it gives me pain For my long lost Franklin I'd cross the main Ten thousand pounds would I freely give To say on earth that my Franklin do live
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We'll Camp A Little While In the Wilderness 04:16
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We'll camp a little while in the wilderness In the wilderness, in the wilderness We'll camp a little while in the wilderness Then I'm going home Chorus: Then I'm going home Then I'm going home We're all making ready, oh ready Then I'm going home Oh brothers are you ready Ready, oh, ready Oh brothers are you ready Then I'm going home...Chorus Oh sisters are you ready Ready, oh, ready Sisters are you ready Then I'm going home...Chorus Oh children are you ready Ready, oh, ready Oh children are you ready Then I'm going home...Chorus We'll camp a little while in the wilderness In the wilderness, in the wilderness We'll camp a little while in the wilderness Then I'm going home...Chorus

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AND THEN I’M GOING HOME: ATWATER-DONNELLY LIVE (2001)
A wonderfully engaging live recording of mostly traditional songs performed by Atwater~Donnelly on stage in the intimate coffeehouses where they have, to this point, performed for nearly fourteen years.
Their ease, warmth, and humor are well-conveyed on this, their seventh recording, as they present American and Celtic folk music, stories, and poems, unearthed through many years of research and performing.
The seventeen cuts include gospel, ballads, stories, poems and one instrumental. Sit back, relax and enjoy this feast!

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released May 9, 2001

Hear the beauty and emotion of Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly's well-matched voices, as well as their unique instrumentation on mountain dulcimer, old-time banjo, guitar, tin whistle, harmonica and bodhran.

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Atwater-Donnelly Warren, Rhode Island

Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly, present delightful programs of traditional American and Celtic folk songs, a capella pieces, old-time gospel songs, dance tunes, and original works, blending gorgeous harmonies with guitar, Appalachian mountain dulcimer, mandolin, tin whistle, harmonica, banjo, bones, spoons, limberjacks, and Appalachian clog dancing and French Canadian footwork. ... more

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