James Hill & Anne Davison
True Love Don't Weep
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Ev'ry Night
One More Lie to Love
Oh! Susanna
Travelin' On
Obedience Blues
Because
Molly Brannigan
New York Strum
Ev'ry Night
(Traditional)
Ev'ry night when the sun goes in
Ev'ry night when the sun goes in
Ev'ry night when the sun goes in
I hang my head and mournful cry
True love don't weep, true love don't mourn
True love don't weep, true love don't mourn
True love don't weep, true love don't mourn
I'm goin' away to Marbletown
Wish to the Lord that train would come
Wish to the Lord that train would come
Wish to the Lord that train would come
And take me back where I come from
Wish to the Lord my baby was born
And sitting on her daddy's knee
And me poor girl was dead and gone
Green grass growin' over me
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One More Lie to Love
(Hill) Come on now run little piggy
Run toward that neon sign
Buy me somethin' I got already
One more lie to love
Fly away little piggy
Fly like you've never flown
Someone's got your soul already
One more lie to love
When I'm gone be a good little piggy
Run toward that neon sign
Buy me somethin' I got already
One more lie to love
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Oh! Susanna
(Foster) I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee
I'm gone to Louisiana, my true love for to see.
It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry
The sun so hot I froze to death, Susanna don't you cry
And oh! Susanna, don't you cry for me
I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee
I had a dream the other night when everything was still
I dreamed I saw Susanna just a-comin' down that hill.
The buckwheat cake was in her mouth and the tear was in her eye
Said I, "I'm comin' from the South, Susanna don't you cry."
I soon will be in New Orleans and then I'll look all around
And when I find Susanna I'll fall upon the ground
But if I do not find her, well, then I'd surely die
And when I'm dead and buried Susanna don't you cry
And oh! Susanna, don't you cry for me
I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee
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Travelin' On
(Hill)
I'm all alone, all alone again (x 3)
Yet there ain't no place in this world that ain't a place of men.
But that don't mean a blessed thing (x 3)
And yet this heart of mine can't help itself but start to sing.
Chorus:
One of these days I'll be travelin' on (x 3)
Won't be neither here nor there, oh no, I'll just be gone.
I've never been so all alone (x 3)
Yet there ain't no place in this heart of mine you ain't called home.
I close my eyes and count to ten (x 3)
But I just can't see my way around this mess I'm in.
Chorus
If your heart is a heavy, heavy old weight (x 3)
Just remember: there ain't no heavy and there ain't no light at the end of the day.
Death ain't like livin' in a little wood box (x 3)
I'd say it's more like being in a prison cell without the locks.
Chorus
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Obedience Blues
(Hill) Did I do right Pappa? Did I stay between the lines?
Did I do right Mamma? Waited my turn at the back of the line.
And all I got for my trouble, all I got for my trouble was
A bad case of them obedience blues.
It's for your own good honey. Don't you go too far.
We'll take good care of you and your money. We'll even poke a couple of holes in the top of the jar.
Say cheese and look pretty please. It's goin' around like a cheap disease.
Everybody got the obedience blues.
It hides between the headlines and lies under the pews.
Whatever it is, baby, it's gonna keep you quietly amused.
Until the day you feel you're being used.
And then you'll you know you've got them obedience blues.
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Because
(D'Hardelot / Teschemacher) Because you came to me with naught save love
And hold my hand and lift my eyes above
A wider world of hope and joy I see
Because you came to me.
Because you speak to me in accents sweet
I find the roses waking 'round my feet
And I am led through tears and joy to thee
Because you speak to me
Because God made you mind I'll cherish you, love
Through light and darkness through all time to be
And pray His love will make our love divine
Because God made you mine.
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Molly Brannigan
(Trad.) Madam dear did you ever hear about pretty Molly Brannigan?
Well, then, she's left me and I'll never be a man again.
Not a spot upon my hide will the summer's sun ever tan again
Since Molly's gone and left me here alone for to die.
The place where my heart was you'd easy roll a turnip in;
It's as large as all Dublin and from Dublin to the Devil's glen.
If she wished to take another, she might have left mine back again
And not have gone and left me here alone for to die.
I remember when milking time was past and gone
We strolled through the meadow and she told me I was the only one
That she could ever love but, oh, that false and cruel one.
For all that she's left me here alone for to die.
I remember when comin' home the rain began.
I wrapped my frieze-coat 'round her and I had but my waistcoat on.
That shirt was mighty fine drawn but, oh, that false and cruel one.
For all that she's left me here alone for to die.
The left side of my carcass is weak as water gruel, ma'am.
There's not a pick upon my bones since Molly's proved so cruel ma'am.
Oh, if I had a blunder gun I'd go and fight a duel ma'am
For I'd rather shoot myself than live here for to die.
But I'm as cool and determined as any salamander ma'am.
Won't you come to my wake when I go on the long meander ma'am
I think myself as valiant as that famous Alexander ma'am
When I hear you cryin' over me: "oh, why did you die?"
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New York Strum
(Doane / MacPhee) This is how you do the New York strum
It makes a kind-of railroad trackin' hum
You move your fingers nice and easy now, when it's time to stop and take a bow
Play a few bars of the New York strum
If you don't know just what chord to play
But you know just what you want to say
Keep your fingers loose and flyin' fast you can really give your song a blast
That's the way we do the New York Strum
Play it on the uke or on the fiddle
Guitar, drums or even tambourine
And if you ever get stuck in the middle
Just put that New York strum right in between
Come on now it's easy and it's fun
You'll feel a whole lot better when you're done
It's something neat that any one of you can learn if you are really trying to
There you go you've got the New York strum!
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