I've Been A Foreign Lander

from The World Is Old Tonight by Atwater-Donnelly Trio 2016

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    THE WORLD IS OLD TONIGHT (2016)
    These songs represent our glory days with the late Jean Ritchie and other long-time friends. These are time-honored songs that we hope kindle ancestral, old-world remembrances of enchanted and sacred seasons in your own lives.

    In addition to Aubrey's vocals, mountain dulcimer, banjo, guitar, tin whistle and feet, and Elwood's vocals, guitar, mountain dulcimer and harmonica, we wish to thanks the outstanding musicians who added boundless depth and grace to these songs: Cathy Clasper-Torch on Chinese erhu, violin, cello and vocals; John Cerrigione on bass; Uriah Donnelly on piano; Kevin Doyle on djembe and Torrin Ryan on uilleann pipes.

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I’ve Been a Foreign Lander
Traditional, from Jean Ritchie

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I’ve been a foreign lander
Full seven long years and more
Among the bold commanders
Where the thundering cannons roar
I’ve conquered all my enemies
Both all on land and sea
It is my dearest duel
Your beauty has conquered me

If I should build a ship my love
Without the wood of tree
That ship would burst asunder
If I prove false to thee
If ever I prove false, my love
The elements will turn
The fire will freeze to ice, my love
The sea will rage and burn

Don’t you remember Queen Ellen
All in her flowery reign
As she walked out of her paradise
To cleanse the golden chain
Her beauty and behavior
None with her could compare
But you my dearest darling
Are more divinely fair

Instrumental

I wish I was a turtledove
Just fluttering from my nest
I’d sing so clear in the morning
With the dew all on my breast
So sweetly would be the music
So doleful and sad the tune
I’d sing so clear in the morning
In the beautiful month of June

I wish I was ten thousand mile
All on some lonesome shore
Or among the rocky mountains
Where the wild beasts howl and roar
The lark, the lilly owl, the eagle
And the little swallow too
I would give them all, my dearest love
If I was married to you

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I've been a foreign lander (foreign lander)

credits

from The World Is Old Tonight, released May 9, 2016
Aubrey Atwater: mountain dulcimer, vocals
Elwood Donnelly: guitar, vocals
Cathy Clasper-Torch: cello, vocals
Torrin Ryan: uilleann pipes

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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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