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The Road to The West
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Original tune with two versions on soundclick.com in two keys. Let me know which one sounds better to your ear. Both of them make me cringe :)
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www.macdonaldfamilysingers.com, bluegrass, flatpicking, guitar, blueridge, gospel, acoustic,
My family and I (10 of us all together, yes, we are one family of two parents and their 8 children, not two combined families) sing together and travel across the USA with our music. Check out our site here: www.macdonaldfamilysingers.com You can also check out other sound clips I have online here: http://www.sitesled.com/members/bonniej/ , which includes a singing clip and a trumpet piece.
Song Info
Genre
Country • Bluegrass
Charts
Peak #56
Peak in subgenre #8
Author
Bonnie J MacDonald
Rights
yes
Uploaded
August 30, 2006
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MP3 2.5 MB • 128 kbps • 2:41
Story behind the song
I was working on another tune and as I went to bed the tune and the words to the last verse came into my head. I got my guitar back out and worked out the last verse, then spent till 1:10am on the rest of it, then there were a few more changes the next day.
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O the sun is shining over the folks in the church yard And my mama, she is crying, to see her little girl gone Some they say that we won't make it It's too rough, the road is long But when we reach the west we'll settle And we pray we'll prove them wrong We have reached the blessed west land Through many trials we have come In the spring the crops were planted And come the winter we'll be three As the summer sun is setting And our work is almost done We will love and live together Till our work on earth is done O the sun is shining over The cold stone he lies under And the autumn wind is blowing Cross the fields of golden grain We have lived and loved together And now our time to part has come We will meet and be together In our home beyond the sun
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