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Soldier's Round

from The Blackest Crow 2004 by Atwater-Donnelly

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    THE BLACKEST CROW (2004)
    The Blackest Crow is a treasury of traditional American and Celtic folk songs, as well as original pieces. Enjoy their resplendent vocals and thoughtful presentation, played on guitar, mountain dulcimer, old-time banjo, tin whistle, mandolin, fiddle, piano, harmonica, bones, bodhran, wooden spoons, and feet.

    In their ongoing quest as gatekeepers of traditional folk music and dance, Aubrey and Elwood treat their life's work as a rescue mission: finding old songs, writing new songs, and as always, giving voice to the quiet. The songs were collected during many years of performing throughout Appalachia, as well as other places in the United States where traditional folk music still melds with daily life.

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Soldier's Round
Based on song fragments. lyrics and melody assembled by Daniel Dutton, Somerset, Kentucky.
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone" by Pete Seeger, ©1961.
"Here stands a couple..." is the first verse of the Ritchie Family song, "March Down to Old Tennessee" ©1965 Jean Ritchie/Geordie Music Publishing, Inc.
"Dance all night and fiddle all day..." begins the second four-line refrain of the chorus for "Love Somebody, Yes I do" ©1965 Jean Ritchie, additional words and melody an adaptation of the Ritchie Family traditional song, Geordie Music Publishing, Inc. In this song, Jean Ritchie wrote "Dance all night and fiddle all day" four-line addition and the last verse, "Love somebody fond and true (3X)...Love somebody and I guess it's you." "Here I stand on buttermilk hill..." begins a verse from "Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier", a centuries-old song with other titles, including "Shule Aroon" which addresses the anguish of one's true love going off to fight in a foreign war.
We believe that the verse that begins with "Grapeshot and muskets..." is from a Civil War song.
Our friend Daniel Dutton writes, "This song medley shows how terrible war is and how it is rationalized and survived by people caught in a seemingly endless and perpetual cycle...".

lyrics

Here stands a couple and they join hearts and hands
He wants a wife and she wants a man
Soon they will get married if they can agree
They'll march on down to old Tennessee and married they shall be

Chorus:
Dance all night, fiddle all day (3X)
That's the soldier's joy they say

Here I stand on Buttermilk Hill
Who could blame me cry my fill
Every tear could turn a mill
Johnny has gone for a soldier...Chorus

Where have all the flowers gone
Where have all the flowers gone
Where have all the flowers gone
Long time passing...Chorus

Grapeshot and musket and cannons lumber loud
There's many a mangled body, a blanket for a shroud
There's many a mangled body left on the fields alone
I am a lonely soldier so far from my home...Chorus

You are your momma's darling boy
You are your momma's darling boy
You are your momma's darling boy
So play that tune called "Soldier's Joy"

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Here stands a couple and they join hearts and hands
He wants a wife and she wants a man
Soon they will get married if they can agree
They'll march on down to old Tennessee and married they shall be...Chorus

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from The Blackest Crow 2004, released May 9, 2004
Aubrey Atwater: vocals, mandolin, banjo, feet
Elwood Donnelly: vocals, guitar, wooden spoons, bones
Cathy Clasper-Torch: fiddle

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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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