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    EACH OTHER’S STORY (2011)
    Here is an interesting blend of genre: a collection of original songs spanning 30 years in the careers of Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly, with a bonus track of a song Elwood wrote in 1966. Some were previously recorded, and on those we’ve added more instruments and voices.

    Thanks to all the fine musicians who added immeasurable depth and warmth to this recording, to whom Aubrey and Elwood are forever grateful: Cathy Clasper-Torch on violin, cello, piano and vocals; John Cerrigione on bass; Heidi Cerrigione on autoharp; Kevin Doyle on percussion; Paul Dube on accordion; Morgan Santos on cello; and Alex Krepkikh on harmonica and tambourine.

    Also thank you to the musicians who were with us during the original recording of some of these songs: Everett Brown on piano accordion; Steve LaValley on djembe; Rick McKinney on mandolin; Cari Norris on guitar and vocals; and Lisa Schmitz on guitar and vocals.

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In the Springtime
Words and music by Aubrey Atwater, BMI ©1988

Originally recorded in 1992, this song was inspired by Aubrey's dear grandmother, Eleanor Bartlett Atwater (1897-1990). When she was in her 90's, she said to Aubrey, "It's hard when all your friends are gone."
I sang this song for her once, and her reaction was, "How lugubrious!"
We've added only chimes here.

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It's hard when all your friends are gone
You've lived so late and for so long
It's hard to only have the young
for friends and consolation

Here in my soft, white downy chair
I think of my house and my land out there
I remember the pebble roads
We had horses before the cars came

And in the Springtime I'll be ninety-one
I've lived so long; my work is done
I've seen so much;
I's time to move on

This land has been in the family
for seven generations
I was twenty in the first World War
In town we had a single store

And now it seems I've lived so long
I've seen four wars and a son die young
Kids raised in front of the TV
Computers at the bank

In the Springtime I'll be ninety-one
I've lived so long; my work is done
I've seen so much;
I's time to move on

Instrumental

Now, I see myself in this shadowy room
The winter sun will be setting soon
I'm smaller than I used to be
And my face no longer looks like me

I have so little energy
To do the things I've always loved
I'm alone in this old house
The young are too busy

In the Springtime I'll be ninety-one
I've lived so long; my work is done
I've seen so much;
I's time to move on

It's hard when all your friends are gone
You've lived so late and for so long
It's hard to only have the young
for friends and consolation

credits

from Each Other's Story 2011, released May 9, 2011
Aubrey Atwater: lead vocals, guitar, tin whistle
Elwood Donnelly: guitar
Kevin Doyle: chimes

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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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