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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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West Virginia Mine Disaster
By Jean Ritchie
©1969, 1971 Geordie Music Publishing, Inc

lyrics

Did you see him going

It was early this morning

He passed by your houses

On his way to the coal
He was tall, he was slender

And his dark eyes so tender

His occupation was mining

West Virginia his home

It was just before twelve

I was feeding the children

Ben Mosley came running

To bring us the news
“Number 8 is all flooded

Many men are in danger

And we don’t know their number

But we fear they’re all doomed.”

So I picked up the baby

And I left all the others

To comfort each other

And to pray for our own
There is Timmy fourteen

And there’s John not much younger

Their own time soon will be coming

To go down the black hole

Well, if I had the money

To do more than just feed them

I’d give them good learnin’

The best could be found
So when they grow up

They’d be checkers and weighers

And not spend their time drillin’
In the dark underground

Instrumental

Now what can I say To his poor little children Or what can I tell
His old mother at home
Or what I can say
To my heart that's clear broken To my heart that's clear broken If my darlin' is gone

Say, did you see him going

So early this morning

He walked by your houses

On his way to the coal
He was tall, he was slender

And his dark eyes so tender

His occupation was mining

West Virginia his home

credits

from The Boat You Row Atwater​-​Donnelly 2022, released August 19, 2022
Aubrey Atwater: vocals, mountain dulcimer
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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