"Appalachian Round" by the Milltown Band

The Milltown Band performs "Appalachian Round" followed by the traditional song "White Oak Mountain" and the instrumental "Kitchen Girl" at the Ginkgo Coffeehouse in St. Paul, Minnesota, Mar. 15, 2008. Group members (left to right): Michael Kac, Beth Woehrle, Annie Woehrle, Tony Balzarini-Leonhart.


Appalachian Round (music by John Blow, lyrics by George Furse)


Take me back, o hills I love,
Lift me from this lonely bed.
Light my way with stars above,
Curl soft winds about my head.
Wash my feet in crystal streams,
Cradle my arms in boughs of oak.
Breathe the scent of pine for dreams,
Wrap me tight in earthen cloak.


White Oak Mountain


Oh, do you remember that rocky mountain side where we sat down to rest?
You promised you'd be my blue-eyed boy with the sun goin' down in the west.


I wish to the lord I'd never been born, or died when I was young.
I'd never have seen your blue eyes shine, or heard your lyin' tongue.


Now hand me down my old white coat, it's a-hangin' there on the nail.
Before this time tomorrow night I'll be out on that long-lost trail.


I never will believe what no man says, though his eyes be blue or brown,
Unless he's hangin' from the scaffold high sayin' 'Darlin', I can't come down.'

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