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Crape Myrtle Song
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Moving from Greenwood to Decatur, Texas. The choruses come from a Dine ceremony.
music blues country roots songwriting mono rural analogue folkways
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Great Big Yam is all about the picnics and harvests. Rural music from rural people.
Great Big Yam is a collective and individual effort to preserve traditional American music and create songs within that tradition. From the traveling blues to the banjo breakdown to the jigs and reels native to Ireland to the African roots to folk protest songs.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #580
Peak in subgenre #118
Author
Bryan Newbury
Rights
2006 Bryan Newbury
Uploaded
August 18, 2006
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MP3 4.9 MB • 128 kbps • 5:23
Story behind the song
When you move around a lot, you remember the flora and fauna more fondly sometimes. The structure can be an afterthought.
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I got a new place just outside of town. I wanted to stay in the old place, but I couldn't stick around. I have made a footprint, there is cheer in my house. I have made a footprint, I live in the light now. We are restored in beauty & all the useless beauty isn't useless if you ask me when I'm standing next to you. I know how to get back home from the second highest flower. It doesn't take very long, twenty minutes to half an hour. And I can see when I'm walking in your begonias are growing fine. The sparrows sing sonnets at sunrise, we should listen to them some time. If you stay in the same spot too long the weeds will overtake you; but if you strike a balance with the road the highway will sustain you. I got a new place right off the square downtown. I navigate by landmarks, it makes no sense writing it down. May it be beautiful before you May it be beautiful behind you May it be beautiful below, above you May the beautiful surround you. We are restored in beauty.
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