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I Am Stretched On Your Grave

from To Lay This Body Down by Hannah Rose Baker

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I’m not entirely sure where I first learned this song, but it is so deliciously macabre it just had to go in my repertoire. It is a translation of an Irish poem, and sort of the opposite point of view of The Unquiet Grave. Rob and I really got into it with the effects pedals on this one and I love the result. Jackson Clawson’s incredible piano playing absolutely makes this track what it is.

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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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from To Lay This Body Down, released September 28, 2022
Trad arr. Baker

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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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