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Martyr's Reel
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A cheerful dirge.
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.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #534
Peak in subgenre #68
Author
Bryan Newbury
Rights
2006 Bryan Newbury
Uploaded
January 09, 2007
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MP3 1.7 MB • 128 kbps • 1:50
Story behind the song
A burial.
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All around, down by the cypress tree All around, down by the cypress tree All around, all around we laid our poor brother down All around down by the cypress tree The ground was soft in spring for digging holes we danced all night to the kawing of the crows all around, all, a round grab your glass & drink it down When we meet again, nobody knows. The glasses emptied as dusk began to set praises, toasts, a promise not to forget praises, toasts, a set of songs his money didn't come along it doesn't care whenn it's your time to go. All around, down by the branch-cut tree All around, down by the branch-cut tree All around, all, a round grab your glass and drink it down, by this time tomorrow, we'll be free.
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