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    THE WORLD IS OLD TONIGHT (2016)
    These songs represent our glory days with the late Jean Ritchie and other long-time friends. These are time-honored songs that we hope kindle ancestral, old-world remembrances of enchanted and sacred seasons in your own lives.

    In addition to Aubrey's vocals, mountain dulcimer, banjo, guitar, tin whistle and feet, and Elwood's vocals, guitar, mountain dulcimer and harmonica, we wish to thanks the outstanding musicians who added boundless depth and grace to these songs: Cathy Clasper-Torch on Chinese erhu, violin, cello and vocals; John Cerrigione on bass; Uriah Donnelly on piano; Kevin Doyle on djembe and Torrin Ryan on uilleann pipes.

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Willie of Winsbury
Traditional, Child Ballad #100

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The king has been a prisoner
And a prisoner long in Spain
While Willie of the Winsbury
Has laid long with his daughter at home

What ails you, what ails you, my daughter, Janet?
For you look so pale and wan
Oh have you had any sore sickness
Or yet been sleeping with a man?

No, I have not had any sore sickness
Nor yet been sleeping with a man
Oh it is for you my father dear
Abiding so long in Spain

Cast off, cast off your berry brown gown
You stand naked upon the stone
That I may know you by your shape
If you be a maiden or no

And she's cast off her berry brown gown
She stood naked upon the stone
Her apron was low and her haunches were round
And her face was pale and wan

Oh was it with a king or a duke or a knight
Or a man of wealth and fame
Or was it with one of my serving men
Who's lately come out of Spain?

No, it wasn't with a king or a duke or a knight
Or a man of wealth and fame
Oh it was with Willie of Winsbury
I could bide no longer alone

And the king has called his merry men all
By forty and by three
He said, fetch me this Willie of Winsbury
For hanged he shall be

Instrumental

And when they came the king before
He was clad in all the red silk
His hair was like the strands of gold
And his skin was as white as the milk

And it is no wonder, said the king,
That my daughter's love you should win
For if I was a woman as I am a man
My bedfellow you would have been

And will you marry my daughter, Janet?
By the truth of your right hand
Oh, will you marry my daughter, Janet?
I'll make you the lord of my land

Oh yes I will marry your daughter, Janet
By the truth of my right hand
Oh yes I will marry your daughter, Janet
But I'll not be the lord of your land

And he's mounted her on a milk-white steed
And himself on a dappled grey
He's made her his lady of as much land
As they shall ride on a warm summer's day

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from The World Is Old Tonight, released May 9, 2016
Aubrey Atwater: guitar, whistle, vocals
Cathy Clasper-Torch: violin, cello

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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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