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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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S'il Vous Plaît
Words and music by Aubrey Atwater, BMI ©1983

Originally recorded in 1992, Aubrey wrote this song at age 19, as a final project for a French class in college. The story was inspired by a homeless woman who Aubrey saw frequently in her former neighborhood in Philadelphia.
We've added accordion and percussion for this version.

lyrics

S'il Vous Plaît, ecoutez ma chanson
Et vous compredrez

Il y a une femme dans ma ville
Elle est debout
Au coin de la rue
Dans le seuil d'une porte
D'une construction abandonee

Elle est jeune comme moi
Mais elle est folle
Elle porte des chiffons
Des sacs de plastique
Autour de ses pieds si gonfles

Et quand on la passé
On se demande
Pourquoi nous sommes tous ici

On voit ses yeux qui regardent
Attentivement, un monde insense
Pres du seuil d'une porte
D'une construction abandonee

En hiver elle a froid
Mais elle rejete tous les vetements
Que les gens dans la ville lui offrent
Parce qu'elle prefere porter
Ses propres vetements
Salles, dechires, insuffisants

Elle est morte aujourd'hui
Morte de froid
De faim, d'epuisment
De la manqué de l'amour and des amis

Et personne ne vienne
Quand elle est morte
Personne ne s'est soucie

Et quand je passe la porte
Vide au coin de la rue
Je me demande pourquoi
Je suis

S'il Vous Plaît
Avez-vous ecoutez ma chanson?
Maintenant vous comprenez

Translation

Please, listen to my song and you will understand
There is a woman in my town; she stands on the corner of the street
In the threshold of the door of an abandoned building

She's young like me, but she's crazy
She wears rags; plastic bags around her swollen feet

And when you pass her you ask yourself, 'why we are all here?'

See her eyes that watch attentively, a nonsense world
Near the threshold of the door of the abandoned building

In the winter she's cold but she refuses all the clothes
That the people in the neighborhood offer her
Because she prefers to wear her own clothes
Dirty, torn and insufficient

She died today; died of cold – of hunger, exhaustion
Of the lack of love and friends

And nobody came when she died; nobody seemed to care

And now when I pass that doorway
Empty on the corner of the street
I ask myself why I am

Please, did you listen to my song?
Now you understand.

credits

from Each Other's Story 2011, released May 9, 2011
Aubrey Atwater: lead vocals, guitar
Kevin Doyle: shaker, tambourine, triangle
Paul Dube: accordion

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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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