ALONG THE RED DIRT ROAD

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TRACK ONE

SONGWRITERS/ARTISTS

FIRST AID KIT

EMMYLOU

THE LYRICS

Oh the bitter winds are coming in

And I'm already missing the summer Stockholm's cold but I've been told

I was born to endure this kind of weather

When it's you I find like a ghost in my mind

I am defeated and I gladly wear the crown

I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June

If you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too

No, I'm not asking much of you

Just sing little darling, sing with me

Now so much I know that things just don't grow If you don't bless them with your patience

And I've been there before, I held up the door

For every stranger with a promise

But I'm holding back,

that's the strength that I lack

Every morning keeps returning at my window

And it brings me to you

and I won't just pass through

But I'm not asking for a storm

I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June

If you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too

No, I'm not asking much of you

Just sing little darling, sing with me

And yes I might have lied to you

You wouldn't benefit from knowing of the truth

I was frightened but I held fast

I need you now at long last

I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June

If you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too

No, I'm not asking much of you

Just sing little darling, sing with me

I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June

If you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too

No, I'm not asking much of you

Just sing little darling, sing with me

Just sing little darling, sing with me

TRACK TWO

SONGWRITER UNKNOWN

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ARTISTS

TENNESSEE MAFIA

JUG BAND

JOHN HARTFORD​

THE

SECESH

(Shiloh)

THE LYRICS

I put my napsack on my back

My rifle over my shoulder

I am going away to Shiloh

And there I'll be a soldier

TRACK THREE

SONGWRITERS

MARIE RAVENEL DE LACOSTE
JOHN HILL HEWITT

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ARTIST
KATHY MATTEA

SOMEBODY'S

DARLING

THE LYRICS

Into the ward

of the clean white-washed halls,

Where the dead slept and the dying lay Wounded by bayonets, sabres and balls, Somebody's darling was borne one day.

Somebody's darling

so young and so brave,

Wearing still on his sweet yet pale face
Soon to be hid in the dust of the grave,
The lingering light of his boyhood's grace.

Somebody's darling, somebody's pride,
Who'll tell his Mother where her boy died?
Matted and damp are his tresses of gold, Kissing the snow of that fair young brow
Pale are the lips of most delicate mould, Somebody's darling is dying now.

Back from his beautiful

purple-veined brow,

Brush off the wandering waves of gold
Cross his white hands

on his broad bosom now,

Somebody's darling is still and cold.

Give him a kiss, but for somebody's sake, Murmur a prayer for him, soft and low,
One little curl from his golden mates take, Somebody's they were once, you know,
Somebody's warm hand

has oft rested there,

Was it a Mother's so soft and white?

Or have the lips of a sister, so fair,
Ever been bathed in their waves of light?
Somebody's watching and waiting for him, Yearning to hold him again to her breast
Yet there he lies

with his blue eyes so dim,
And purple, child-like lips half apart.

Tenderly bury the fair, unknown dead,
Pausing to drop on this grave a tear
Carve on the wooden slab over his head, Somebody's darling is slumbering here.

TRACK FOUR

SONGWRITER/ARTIST

TIM O'BRIEN

RESTLESS SPIRIT WANDERING

THE LYRICS

Restless spirit, wandering,

come on home again

Tell me about your days of old,

wander back again

You won't admit your life is taken,

to your death not yet awakened

Restless spirit wandering,

come on home again

Oglethorpe was around this place

some hundred fifty years

Since a Union bullet hit its mark,

and his teenaged heart it pierced

Years ago a young girl lived here,

she became his friend

But when their family moved away

their friendship had to end

And when we bought this house

the neighbors came and talked about him

Though we've not heard or seen a thing,

I hope he comes again

I'd like to ask him lots of things,

and hear the way he talks

Describing local battle scenes

on some slow morning walk

Restless spirit, wandering,

come on home again

Tell me about your days of old,

wander back again

Don't admit your life is taken,

to your death not yet awaken

Restless spirit wandering,

and come on home again

The room I write in used to be a two car garage

A nineteen fifties chrome and fin

and white wall tired montage

Years later it became a church,

and they moved an organ in

And these walls would shake with holy songs and sermons against sin

I like to think this place was made for

the kind of work I do

I'll try to be ready when

the spirit comes back through

I'll write it down and sort it out and

make it fairly rhyme

And marry it to the melody of highest flyin' kind

I want to try be to a friend to souls

that cannot rest

I would not blame their anger,

don't claim to know what's best

But souls are all connected

like the branches on a tree

And things they see beyond the grave

might help out you and me

Restless spirit, wandering,

come on home again

Tell me about your days of old,

wander back again

Tell me as you come and go,

things that people need to know

Restless Spirit, wandering,

come on home again

Don't admit your life is taken,

to your death not yet awaken

Restless spirit wandering,

come on home again

TRACK FIVE

SONGWRITERS/ARTISTS

MUMFORD & SONS

GHOSTS THAT

WE KNEW​

THE LYRICS

You saw my pain,

washed out in the rain

Broken glass,

saw the blood run from my veins

But you saw no fault

no cracks in my heart

And you knelt beside

my hope torn apart

But the ghosts that we knew

will flicker from you

And we'll live a long life

So give me hope in the darkness

that I will see the light

'Cause oh that gave me such a fright

But I will hold as long as you like

Just promise me we'll be alright

So lead me back

Turn south from that place

And close my eyes

from my recent disgrace

'Cause you know my call

We'll share my all

Now children come

and they will hear me roar

So give me hope in the darkness

that I will see the light

'Cause oh that gave me such a fright

But I will hold as long as you like

Just promise me we'll be alright

But hold me still

bury my heart on the cold

And hold me still

bury my heart on the cold

So give me hope in the darkness

that I will see the light

'Cause oh that gave me such a fright

But I will hold on as long as you like

Just promise me that we'll be alright

But the ghosts that we knew

made us blackened or blue

But we'll live a long life

And the ghosts that we knew

will flicker from view

And we'll live a long life