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To Lay This Body Down

by Hannah Rose Baker

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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
2.
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
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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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
6.
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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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
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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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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released September 28, 2022

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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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