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The Queen of Hearts
02:57
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To the queen of hearts is the ace of sorrows
He's here today and gone tomorrow
Young men are plenty but sweethearts few
If my love leaves me what shall I do
I love my father I love my mother
I love my sister I love my brother
I love my friends and my family too
I'll leave them all and go with you
If I had store in yonder mountain
With gold and silver there for counting
I could not count for the love of thee
My eyes so full I could not see
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Rain and Snow
05:34
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Well I married me a wife
She gave me trouble all of my life
Run me out in that cold rain and snow
Rain and snow, rain and snow, oh Lord
She run me out in that cold rain and snow
Well, I saw her coming down the stairs
Combing back her long yellow hair
And her cheeks were as red as a rose
As a rose, as a rose, oh Lord
And her cheeks were as red as a rose
Well, I've done all I can do
To try to get along with you
And I can't get along this way
This way, this way
And I can't get along this way
I saw her coming in the room
That's where she met her fatal doom
And I ain't gonna be treated this way
This way, this way
I ain't gonna be treated this way
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The Seeker
03:40
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I will tramp the hills, the bottom lands, explore the river's way
Until I take into my hand the life of another day
Dark face that broods beside the flickering fire
Return and speak through carved moods of need and of desire
Return to me the field of corn, the deer's long leap, the hawk's shrill cry
The implements of thong and horn, the spirit in the wind's low sigh
Establish in my blood and mind the courtesy of love
That guards my search before, behind, for life at far remove
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My War Service
01:24
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I am stretched on your grave and I'll lie here forever
If your hands were in mine, I am sure we'd not sever
My apple tree my brightness, it's time we were together
For I smell of the earth and I'm warn by the weather
Oh do you remember the night we were lost
In the shade of the blackthorn and the chill of the frost
Oh, thanks be to Jesus we did all that was right
And your maidenhead still is your pillar of light
The priests and the friars approach me with dread
Because I still love you, I'm alive and you're dead
I still will be your shelter through rain and through storm
But with you in your cold grave, I cannot sleep warm
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Hey little girl is your daddy home?
Did he go away and leave you all alone mmhmm?
I've got a bad desire
Oh, I'm on fire
Tell me now baby is he good to you
Does he do to you the things I can do, mmhmm?
I can take you higher
Oh, I'm on fire.
Sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull
And cut a six inch valley through the middle of my skull
At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
Oh, I'm on fire
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Green Grow the Laurels
02:56
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I once had a sweetheart but now I have none
He's gone and he's left me I'm here all alone
And now that he's left me content I must be
For he loves another far better than me
Green grow the laurels and soft falls the dew
Sad was my heart when I parted from you
With our next meeting I hope you'll prove true
Never change the green laurel for the red, white, and blue
I wrote him a letter so loving and kind
He wrote me another with sharp bitter lines
Saying "Keep your love letters and I will keep mine."
"You write to your love and I'll write to mine"
He passed by my window both early and late,
And the looks that he gave me would make your heart ache,
The looks that he gave me ten thousand would kill,
Wherever he wanders, he'll be my love still.
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The Cuckoo
02:54
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The cuckoo's a pretty bird, she sings as she flies
She brings us glad tidings, she tells us no lies
She sucks the little birds' eggs to keep her voice clear
And when she sings cuckoo the summer draws near
A-walking, a-talking, a-walking was I,
To meet my true lover, he'll come by and by,
To meet him in the meadows is all my delight,
A-walking and talking from morning till night.
Meeting is pleasure but parting is a grief
And an inconstant lover is worse than a thief.
A thief can but rob me and take all I have,
But an inconstant lover sends me to my grave.
And the grave, it will rot me and bring me to dust,
An inconstant lover no maiden can trust,
They'll court you and kiss you and vow they'll be true
And the very next moment they'll bid you adieu.
As I was a walking by the side of a bush
I heard two birds whistling, the blackbird and the thrush.
I asked them the reason so merry they be,
And the answer they gave me, we are single and we are free.
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Am I Born To Die
04:41
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And am I born to die?
To lay this body down!
And must my trembling spirit fly
Into a world unknown?
A land of deepest shade,
Unpierced by human thought;
The dreary regions of the dead,
Where all things are forgot!
Soon as from earth I go,
What will become of me?
Eternal happiness or woe
Must then my portion be!
Waked by the trumpet sound,
I from my grave shall rise;
And see the Judge with glory crowned,
And see the flaming skies!
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Hannah Rose Baker Boston, Massachusetts
Hannah Rose Baker never thought that she would be a musician, at least, not one who loved country music, played in dive bars, and revered Willie Nelson. Nevertheless, that is where she has found herself today. Armed with her father’s guitar, her fiddle and her voice, Baker writes and performs songs of humorous melancholy that pay tribute to the deep and wide traditions of American music. ... more
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