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The Earth and All That is in It

by Roe Family Singers

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The Buckeye Tree (free) 02:35
The Buckeye Tree The sun was shining; it was so sunny and through the trees blew a warm breeze I hugged my baby up close to me underneath the buckeye tree I said, “Now, listen, listen to me: “It all is right, as right can be ”So stay right here, right here with me ”underneath the buckeye tree” She said, “Now, listen, listen to me: ”You know my love it runs deeply “but the city is calling me ”from underneath the buckeye tree” When I awoke, awoke did me there was no one close to me I was all alone, alone was me underneath the buckeye tree
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My poor husband I laid him low when I cut him with my knife My husband counted many a foe and among them me his wife I dragged his body right out the door to bury him in the ground and as my muscles getting sore he was only two feet down I walked back to my kitchen door as the rain fell from the sky but I knew that it was just my Lord as the tears fell from His eye Then there was this terrible sound of a banging upon my door and throwing open that wooden gate there lied my husband’s corpse His cold, cold eyes they held my own as I heard a wailing plea then I realized that they were my own saying, “Please, Lord, forgive me” So if you’re going to dig a grave make sure you dig it deep for a shallow grave will rise them up when the Lord begins to weep
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They came from the trees that night grey shades amongst the black trees with hunger on their lips in snow drawing ever nearer Hard cold had killed all their prey they were starving in the mountains Hunger drove them down our way They leapt upon all who found them So drawing my darling close I raised and leveled my shotgun and squeezing the trigger oh, so tight wouldn’t fire not even to falter They fell upon us with speed my throat was tattered and torn My whip sang out with greed I lived just barely till the morning My darling screamed once my name as they dragged her back into the black trees I heard her moan out in pain then the howling was all that reached me My Heart Took to the Earth There was a flock of birds calling over my head and as they flew my heart took to the sky and as I opened my mouth to sing along O!
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There was a flock of birds calling over my head and as they flew my heart took to the sky and as I opened my mouth to sing along O! There was a wave that was rolling to the shore and as it crashed my heart took to the sea and as I mingled within those fathomless arms O! There was a forest that spread out before my eyes and as it grew my heart took to the Earth and as my heart put roots deep into the soil O! There was a deer that was standing in the glen and as he stood my heart took to the trees and as a calm settled down over my heart O!
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All I Need 02:38
When you’re lying close on me I can feel your heart beat That is all I need Eyes of fog and skin grows wet I can feel your breath That is all I need Fire it burns and ice is cold Could we two together grow old? That is all I need Hell below and Heaven above you’re the woman I love That is all I need That is all I need
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My Poor Son 02:36
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Mockingbird 01:57
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Woe Is Me 02:53
Woe is me! O, I say (O, Lord, she’s crying) Woe is me! O, I say (O, Lord, she’s crying) Used to live out on my land Bank came out took what I had Had a boy just 6 months old He done died out from the cold Ain’t no more a loving wife Left that cheating man of mine Got no home, no baby, O! I got no love, I’m all alone What good is this life I have I look around it’s all so sad
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White Horse (free) 03:43
I had a boy, a sweet young boy growing in my womb but the junk that I put into my veins made my flesh his tomb White horse, white horse galloping through my veins I’m a slave to that old white mare since she took the reins When I can’t sleep at night it’s the weed I like When I can’t wake up it’s the speed and if you’ve got $10 I’ll turn a trick for you I got a habit to feed But don’t you look down your nose at me don’t you scorn my vice for money-grubbing avarice can, too, destroy your life Now Jesus said before He died “Let him without sin cast a stone” but every man that I’ve ever seen is sinful to his bones But don’t cry for me, don’t shed no tears because this is the life that I’ve chose and if my corpse gets to looking sad it’s just cocaine to powder my nose
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When the big machines block the road and Industry spills our brains I pray to God above that I still have a name Not a machine part, but a heart When we’re digitized and compressed into sixteen little bytes I pray to God above that I still come to rites of decomposition in a grave and not in some file no longer saved So when the big machines block the road and Industry spills our brains I pray to God above that I still have a name that I can give you and our child in this brave new world that doesn’t smile
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I sing for the dead the ones who passed before and pray that they wait for me upon far Jordan’s shore I pray they look upon me wherever they may be and grace me with their presence upon God’s Mystery I sing for the dead sleeping under ground who wait for the ringing of the judgement bell to sound and when it finally sounds out peeling o’er the air then they shall rise up and find their judgement there I sing for the dead risen to the sky or burning in the brimstone or stuck in the by-and-by I pray they look upon me wherever they may be and grace me with their presence upon God’s mystery
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Lizabeth Brown, Lizabeth Brown shot her old man right down “He beat me up, he knocked me down ”Twas self-defense,” said Lizabeth Brown Lizabeth Brown lit out of town “Ain’t no man gonna lock me down” Bullet in her side to weigh her down Lay down and died, poor Lizabeth Brown Devil man came unto her with horns on head and legs of fur Said to her, “Like what I see!”Lizabeth Brown won’t you marry me?” “The hell I will,” said Lizabeth Brown “No boogie-man gonna tie me down!”All you men, from hoof to crown, “you’re all the same,” said Lizabeth Brown The Lord He came to Lizabeth Brown “On what you did I do frown” “But your old man, poor Lizabeth Brown ”he weren’t no good. In peace lie down” Lizabeth Brown unto Him said, “No, thank you, Sir, I’ll not be dead”She got right up and walked around a free woman, that Lizabeth Brown Lizabeth Brown, Lizabeth Brown shot her old man right down “He beat me up, he knocked me down ”Twas self-defence,” said Lizabeth Brown

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released December 15, 2008

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Roe Family Singers Minneapolis, Minnesota

Bonfire Music Group recording artists the Roe Family Singers are a Good-Time, Old-Time Hillbilly band from the tiny community of Kirkwood Hollow, MN. Led by wife & husband Kim Roe and Quillan Roe, the band marries old-time sounds from barn-dances, fiddle pulls, and county fairs with the rock & roll passion of youth. ... more

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