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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 Single Sailor
As sung by Mabel Arnold Lyons, Providence, RI 1/11/1945 for the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection. Learned from her father, Albert C. Arnold, born in N. Kingston, RI. This seventeenth century “broken token” ballad, often known as John Riley, has many variants. It is thought to be derived from the eighth century BC Greek epic poem, Homer’s Odyssey.

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As I walked out one fine May morning
A brisk young sailor I chanced to meet
Stepped up to me, asked me to marry
Said I, ‘Kind sir, can you fancy me?’

“Oh how can you fancy a poor, young woman
Who is not fit your servant to be?”
“I intend to marry, make you my lady
And have a servant to wait on thee”

“I thank you sir for your kind intention
But I have a lover over the sea.
It’s seven long years I have waited for him
And now I await his return to me.”

“It’s seven long years makes an alteration
Perhaps he may be dead and gone.”
“Well if he’s living, I love him dearly
And if he’s dead, he’s in glory slain.”

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He took his hand out from his vest coat
His fingers were both neat and small
And showing her the ring that was broken between them
And when she saw this, she did fall

He picked her up by the waist so slender
And giving her kisses one, two, and three
Saying, “I am your own true single sailor
Who has just returned for to marry thee.”

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from The Boat You Row Atwater​-​Donnelly 2022, released August 19, 2022
Aubrey Atwater: vocals, whistle
Elwood Donnelly: vocals, guitar
Cathy Clasper-Torch: vocals, violin
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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