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    SIDE A
    1 Beneath the Willow
    2 Cuckoo Bird
    3 The Devil’s Nine
    4 Shenandoah

    SIDE B
    1 Gone for Soldier
    2 Lazy John
    3 Wind and Rain
    4 I’m So Glad
    5 Wayfaring Stranger


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about

Two sisters become entangled in a web of envy and a tragic act of violence alters the course of their fates forever. A musician's magical touch resurrects the dead, but bounds a woman’s soul forever to a solitary and haunting fiddle melody. This tragic tale may not be streaming on HBO, but it can be heard in this chilling 16th century murder ballad.

lyrics

There were two sisters, such a beautiful pair
O the wind and rain
One was dark and the other was fair
O the dreadful wind and rain

And they both had a love for a neighbor's son
O the wind and rain
But he was fond of the fairer one
O the dreadful wind and rain

So she pushed her into the river to drown
O the wind and rain
And watched her as she floated down
O the dreadful wind and rain

And she floated till she came to a shallow pond
O the wind and rain
Dead on the water like a golden swan
O the dreadful wind and rain

And along the road came a fiddler fair
O the wind and rain
And found her bones just a lying there, cried
O the dreadful wind and rain

So he made a fiddle peg of her long finger bone
O the wind and rain
He a made a fiddle peg of her long finger bone
O the dreadful wind and rain

And he strung his fiddle bow with her long yeller hair
O the wind and rain
He strung his fiddle bow with her long yeller hair, cried
O the dreadful wind and rain

And he made a fiddle fiddle of her breast bone
O the wind and rain
He made a fiddle fiddle of her breast bone, cried
O the dreadful wind and rain

But the only tune that the fiddle could play was
O the wind and rain
The only tune that the fiddle would play was
O the dreadful wind and rain

credits

from American Patchwork Quartet, released February 9, 2024
from American Patchwork Quartet, releases February 9, 2024
Traditional Arranged by Clay Ross & Falguni Shah

Songwriters: John Clayton Ross (ASCAP), Shah Falguni Gaurav (BMI)
Publishing: Yalcmusic (ASCAP), Falu Music Publishing (BMI)

Clay Ross - Producer, Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitars & Vocals
Shani Gandhi - Associate Producer, Engineer, and Mixing Engineer
Falguni Shah (Falu) - Vocals
Dowell Gandy - Assistant Engineer
Gavin Lurssen - Mastering Engineer
Kylie Sager - Mixing Assistant
Recorded at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, NC
May 16 - 20, 2022

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American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) is on a mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American Roots Music.

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