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Pleasure contains Epitaph
Winner of CARA's 1999 Best Song of the Year in the world folk category

Special appearances by: Glen Velez, percussion, N.Scott Robinson, percussion

Brief Song Descriptions

LYRICS TO ALL OF THE SONGS LISTED BELOW

1 Swifts: about the joys of family life and these winged aerial
acrobats that sweep the summer skies above our towns.
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2 Sheep In The Meadow: a setting of Bonnie at Morn, an old pastoral
Northumbrian lullaby.
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3 Epitaph: Scottish bagpipe lament with Wendell Berry's words on how
we carry the memory of a deceased elder.

4 Pleasure: Celtic mouth music moves into "scat singing" jazz vocal.

5 Bushy Tail: a lyrical folk song "picture book". Features hound
dogs barking in parallel thirds.
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6 Quil 'O Quay: old Appalachian ballad in which a man kills a
monstrous wild boar. Learned from a retired coal miner.
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7 The Selchie and the Fisherman: a seal assumes the form of a woman,
marries and rescues her rescuer.
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8 Reel a' Bouche: a French Canadian lilting or mouth music piece.

9 A Psalm of Life: defiantly affirms life's purpose. One of Henry
Longfellow's first poems after his wife's death.

10 Pegasus: about rising from despair in dreams of flying. Melodic
material borrowed from a 14th Century Italian Laude.

11 Kitty Alone: a lyrical and catchy children's critter song.

12 Bye Oh Baby: 2 part folk lullaby

13 Woody Knows Nothin': a love song with birds and beguiling folk
poetry that warms the heart and the imagination.

14 Bayou Sara: based on an African American roustabout song about an
1884 riverboat disaster on the Mississippi.

15 Have Your Lamps Gone Out: based on a roustabout song of the
underground railroad.

16 Fount: melody of an old hymn with new words in praise of the earth
and our privilege to be here.

17 Sail Away: fancy foot work starts this song of liberation based on
the old banjo/fiddle dance tune Sail Away Ladies.

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