Name: For You Alone I Walk This Road
Duration: 5 min 9 s
Channel: David Kilpatrick
Description: Free MP3 download! Licensing options are available for this track. This is a simple, driving, singable song - maybe it's about your partner, your mother, your father, your children; maybe it's about your faith, no matter who you believe in. It's another of those songs I never tried to write, it wrote itself.

For You Alone I Walk This Road

David Kilpatrick

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This is a simple, driving, singable song - maybe it's about your partner, your mother, your father, your children; maybe it's about your faith, no matter who you believe in. It's another of those songs I never tried to write, it wrote itself.

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David Kilpatrick

Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.

I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #94

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

David Kilpatrick

Rights

David Kilpatrick

Uploaded

November 24, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.7 MB • 128 kbps • 5:09

Story behind the song

Even after recording this, I was inclined to change a few words, because nothing was written down. The chorus just came along around the end of December 2001, and the rest was completed on the night I recorded it. I think 'Although the wind blows loudly' is a trifle weak, but you've almost got to speak the auld northern tongue to handle singing 'loudly' in that place, so I left it! If you want to sing this song, substitute 'Although the ocean rages', it's easier to sing by a long way!

I can't explain why I am favouring this very simple and direct sort of song (listen to my earlier ones and you'll find them entirely different). Maybe it's because I am not trying to write songs now, with over 70 on my mp3.com page I seem to have enough... and then they just drop out of the air some late night, and I have to record them.

This is all miked, no pickups. Just two C1000S mikes, Lowden O-10 acoustic guitar, percussion while strumming (fingers on the scratchplate), plus a single beat on an Irish drum added with the overdubbed second vocal part. No editing; whatever my voice or guitar was doing, it's all there.

This song has been included as a hymn in a 'people's hymn book' for a diocese in Montana. Wasn't really planned that way, but I was happy to agree.

Lyrics

For you alone I walk this road
For you alone I walk this road
Although the miles grow weary
And I bear a heavy load
For you alone I'll walk this road
(this is the chorus)

For you I'll sail the deepest sea
For you I'll sail the deepest sea
Although the wind blows loudly
And the waves rise over me
For you I'll sail the deepest sea

For you I'll climb the highest hill
For you I'll climb the highest hill
Although the path is rocky
And my steps they falter still
For you I'll climb the highest hill

For you alone I'll drink this cup
For you alone I'll drink this cup
Although the draught is bitter
I will drain it every drop
For you alone I'll drink this cup

For I know you'll wake me from this dream
For one day, you wake me from this dream
You'll throw the shutters open
And I'll see the light come streaming in!
Some day, you'll wake me from this dream