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Dusk and Dawn
03:48
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Have you ever walked in the evening glow
and watched that mist come gathering low
with all we cannot know
Have you ever seen the winged ones fly
faster than their supper out of sight
into the night
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Dusk and dawn, they travel on, where past and future live as one
with what's been done
The rising and the setting sun, the joyful and the sorrow song
can't stay long
Have you ever walked in the growing hay,
flowers get cut these fields do change
place remains
Have you ever seen a mother deer
watching with her family as you draw near
is she feeling fear
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Have you ever walked in the morning fog
tried to find where you belong
put it in a song
Have you ever baked the morning bread
knead it till your arms ache, cut it with a thred
so your family will be fed
Chorus
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Deluge
02:29
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These hills are home, habitats torn
and tossed to the town, inhabitants forlorn
When the tops you take, the ground begins to shake
the future will follow the paths that you make
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When will this rain wash us all away
gon clear this old mountain just like it's judgment day
These shallow roots can't hold all this clay
gon slide down this mountain and take what's in its way
Tangled in roots, mycelium and shoots
the wise one will know to look beyond the fruit
What's surface deep will haunt me in my sleep
the fool is the one thinking dirt is theirs to keep
Chorus
Soil in the spring with life it could bring
it runs to the river to muck up everything
Mud in the fall, without the forest tall
it pours over parched earth its path covers all
Chorus
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Victory Garden
04:10
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Well she learned to grow a garden back in 1943
when her mama tore the yard out in pursuit of victory
and as she worked and weeded, picked and processed, put away
well her mama sang this song to her nearly every day
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Well as surely as the sun does light the morning in the east
I will work as many hours as it takes to let you eat
And as surely as the sun does paint the evening in the west
Well you are the darling of my heart, the treasure I love best
She met a man and married him in 1955
it was only one year later that their child did arrive
In ways the world was easier if a woman walked the line
but the heartbreak of a mother is a father who's unkind
The yelling years they rolled right up to 1962
when this worn and weary woman did just what she had to do
Driving out of town with just a suitcase and a song
and the sweet voice of that little girl kept her rolling right along
Chorus
Well her daughter had a daughter in 1981
and just as the saying says, a mother's work is never done
Her daughter worked the night shift and the daddy was long gone
so she rocked that baby every night, and sang to her this song
Chorus
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Do You Have the Time
02:37
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Do you have the time to look up at the sky
oh the years they just flow by like that river to the sea
and often do I find that forest on my mind
and the peace that is waiting there for me
Do you have the time to drop me a line
oh the years they just roll by like that train that runs through town
and often do I find that you are on my mind
thinking fondly of the times you were around
What do you like to do, what's gonna see us through?
Keep us from feeling blue, comfort our minds
And somewhere down the line we will look back at this time
and you can tell me then just what you found
Do you have the time to listen to my rhymes
oh the years they have flown by since I've made it to your shore
and often do I find that village on my mind
I am sending all my love to you and yours
Darlin, do you have the time to hold me if I cry
oh the years they just go by from that cradle to the grave
and darlin you will find that if you only try
I will return all the love you gave
What do you like to do, what's gonna see us through?
Keep us from feeling blue, comfort our minds
And somewhere down the line we will look back at this time
and celebrate this life that we have made
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Close Talking Man
03:24
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He's hunting hearts, and taking names
It's hard to watch him on his game
He's standing close, she turns away
When will he learn if not today
In walks a young and pretty gal
across the room, she sees her pals
Before she makes it to that chair
close talkin man is standing there
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Well I know you know, yes we know the fellow
Oh just look around, I don't have to tell ya
He leans in, and she leans out
well I know you know what I'm talking about.....
Why's it so hard to understand?
Nobody loves a close talking man
So head these words I'm sayin clear
if they have made it to your ear
If she ain't meeting you halfway
Then you had best be on your way
Chorus
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The Resonant Rogues Marshall, North Carolina
The Resonant Rogues’ dark Appalachian folk paints a picture of their lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina and on the road. Anchored by the songwriting duo of Sparrow (banjo, accordion) and Keith Smith (guitar), the duo has traveled the byways and highways of America and crossed the oceans with instruments in tow. ... more
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