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Nimrod Workman, vocal - House Burning in Carter County (M​.​L. Willliams)

from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 5: Grown on American Soil by Field Recorders' Collective

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Last Wednesday night I saw a light
Bright shining on those hills (?)
Their mother run with all her might
While everything was still.

She went into a neighbor's house
Some hundred yards away
“Don’t stay too long, dear Mother, there
For we’ll be lonesome here.”

“I’ll get some liniment,“ she said
And then return again
But on her way as she turned home
She saw her house in flames.
She cried, “Oh Lord, my babes are gone
And I’m the one to blame."

Their little bones lay on the ground
They both lay face to face
Their souls did fled to God on high
Their bones they twined embrace. (?)

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from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 5: Grown on American Soil, released August 7, 2023
Recorded by Mark Wilson and Ken Irwin, Chattaroy, WV, 3/2/76. Previously unissued.

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