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Ballad of Lewis Baker
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A folk tale about a stone carver.
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Genre
Country Country-Pop
Charts
#7,416 today Peak #12
#1,457 in subgenre Peak #2
Author
Tim Brown/Graham Snow
Rights
Snow/Brown2004
Uploaded
November 27, 2005
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MP3 3.1 MB 128 kbps 0:00
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Ballad of Lewis Baker Lyrics: Tim Brown. Music: Graham Snow Vocal, guitars and programming: Graham Snow In the early nineteen hundreds down Lawrence County way Working in the quarries was how you earned your pay Lewis Baker was a carver and a good one so it’s told The stress of carving took him when he was twenty one years old Bedford, Indiana was the place that he called home And Lewis earned his living making carvings out of stone It was limestone work that killed him, and limestone gave him fame For the monument in Bedford, that bears young Baker’s name The other carvers liked him, and mourned that he was gone They took the block of limestone that he’d been working on They carved a fitting tribute, so we’d remember him A copy of his workbench, just the way that it had been His blueprints and carving tools the way he’d left them there Even little mounds of dust, reproduced with loving care From far and wide, people come, to see this work of art And remember Lewis Baker, a man of noble heart Bedford, Indiana was the place that he called home And Lewis earned his living making carvings out of stone It was limestone work that killed him, and limestone gave him fame For the monumental tombstone, that bears young Baker’s name At night in Greenhill Cemetary, when a chill is in the air You might see a ghostly figure, standing near his workbench there Lewis Baker was a carver and a good one so it’s told The stress of carving took him when he was twenty one years old Bedford, Indiana was the place that he called home And Lewis earned his living making carvings out of stone It was limestone work that killed him, and limestone gave him fame For the monumental tombstone, that bears young Baker’s name For the monument in Bedford, that bears young Baker’s name
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Ronald F Elliott
Dec 31, 2018
I love this song; I call it, Americana Amazing music with a reason for every word and every note