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The Conscript​’​s Departure

from The Boat You Row Atwater​-​Donnelly 2022 by Atwater-Donnelly

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    THE BOAT YOU ROW (2022)
    In this project, Aubrey and Elwood curate archival American folk songs and dance as well as contemporary pieces by Sonny Houston, Jean Ritchie, Billy Edd Wheeler and Elwood himself.
    Ever growing and expanding, award-winning vocal, instrumental and dance artists Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly present The Boat You Row, their 14th album. Joined by top-notch musicians, Cathy Clasper-Torch, Erin Lobb Mason and Torrin Ryan, their breathtaking vocals are accompanied by mountain dulcimer, banjo, whistle, guitar, harmonica, foot percussion, violin, cello, piano, bass, Uilleann pipes and tambourine.

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The Conscript’s Departure
Words by Charles Jefferys, music by Charles W. Glover, 1851. As collected from Margaret Shipman in Lee, MA 09-05-1941 by Helen Hartness Flanders for the Flanders Ballad Collection

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You’re going far away, far away from poor Jeannette
There’s no one left to love me now, and you, too may forget
But my heart will be with you wherever you may go
Can you look me in the face and say the same, Jeannot?

When you wear the jacket red and the beautiful cockade
Oh, I fear you will forget all the promises you made
With the gun upon your shoulder and the saber by your side
You’ll be taking some proud lady and be making her your bride
You’ll be taking some proud lady and be making her your bride

Or when glory leads the way you’ll be madly rushing on
Never thinking if they kill you, that my happiness is gone
If you win the day perhaps, a general you’ll be
Though I’m proud to think of that, what will become of me?

Oh, if I were Queen of France, or still better, Pope of Rome
I’d have no fighting men abroad, nor weeping maids at home
All the world should be at peace, or if kings must show their might
Then let them who make the quarrels be the only ones who fight
Yes, let them who make the quarrels be the only ones who fight

Oh, if I were Queen of France, or still better, Pope of Rome
I’d have no fighting men abroad, nor weeping maids at home
All the world should be at peace, or if kings must show their might
Then let them who make the quarrels be the only ones who fight
Yes, let them who make the quarrels be the only ones who fight

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from The Boat You Row Atwater​-​Donnelly 2022, released August 19, 2022
Aubrey Atwater: vocals, mountain dulcimer
Elwood Donnelly: vocals, guitar, tambourine
Cathy Clasper-Torch: vocals, cello
Erin Lobb Mason: bass
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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