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If I Were A Carpenter
03:07
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If I were a carpenter, and you were a lady
Would you marry me anyway? would you have my baby?
If a tinker were my trade, would you still find me
Carrying the pots I made - following behind me?
Save my love through loneliness - save my love through sorrow
I give you my only-ness - give me your tomorrow
If I worked my hands in wood, would you still love me?
Answer me, babe: "yes I would - I'd put you above me"
If a miller were my trade, at a mill wheel grinding
Would you miss your coloured blouse - your soft shoes shining
Save my love through loneliness - save my love through sorrow
I give you my only-ness - come give me your tomorrow
If I were a carpenter, and you were a lady
Would you marry me anyway? would you have my baby?
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Shiloh Town
03:25
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It's so cold in Shiloh Town
Birds can hardly sing
Pretty girls gonna leave the town
They won't be back 'til spring
The war has been won they've come back home
But they're the ones that lost
I see a man and a woman alone
Was it worth the cost?
I'll sing hallelujah
You'll sing hallelujah
We'll all sing hallelujah
When they arrive at home
Sun is out it's hot today
Children all come out to play
Some are quick to come back home
Others, have gone to stay
It is so cold in Shiloh Town
Birds can't hardly sing
Pretty girls are gonna leave the town
They won't be back 'til spring
I'll sing hallelujah
You'll sing hallelujah
We'll all sing hallelujah
When they arrive at home
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Lady Came From Baltimore
03:25
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Lady came from Baltimore, all she wore was lace.
She didn't know that I was poor, she never saw my place.
I was there to steal her money and take her rings and run.
Then I fell in love with the lady, got away with none.
The lady's name was Susan Moore, Her daddy read the law.
She didn't know that I was poor and lived outside the law.
Her daddy said, I was a thief and didn't marry her for love.
I was Susan's true belief and I married her for love.
I was there to steal her money, take her rings and run.
Then I fell in love with the lady and got away with none.
The house she lived in had a wall to keep the robbers out.
She'd never stop to think at all that that's what I'm about.
I was there to steal her money, take her rings and run.
Then I fell in love with the lady and got away with none.
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Tribute to Hank Williams
04:41
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Good bye Hank Williams, my friend
I didn't know you
But i've been in places you've been
In Richmond where he'd just been
For some seats could not be found
But they planned to see him again
Next time Hank Williams was in town
Hardly nobody knew that night how soon they'd be crying
Hardly nobody knew that night Hank Williams was dieing
He sang from his heart
Took the pain for his fans
We watched the pain in his heart
And they sang and then they clapped their hands
Good bye Hank Williams, my friend
I didn't know you
But i've been the places you've been
Whiskey took the heartbreak
From too many broken dreams
What pain wasn't taken by whiskey
was taken by too much morphine
Good bye Hank Williams, my friend
I didn't know you
But i've been the places you've been
The chauffeur steered the car that night
To the town next in line for the show
With his name and the date in lights
And people with tickets to go
Hardly nobody knew that night how soon they'd be crying
Hardly nobody knew that night Hank Williams was dieing
Good bye Hank Williams, my friend
I didn't know you
But i've been the places you've been
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Hiawatha Telephone Company Brighton, UK
A singer-songwriter sort-of-thing, named after a t-shirt and never intended as a viable commercial proposition HTC was a
vehicle for some excellent songs.
2009 album 'Harry Smith was my Father' is described as "immaculate, the acme of intimacy in music" (Common Folk Meadow). A second album 'Passengers Greatest Hits' followed in 2014.
HTC now records and releases music as 'The Family Grave'.
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