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Nothing but Stars

from Nothing But Stars - 5 songs by Springhouse

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Inspired in part by the traditional "Witch of the West Mereland" as performed by our friend Stevie Coyle; and in part by the full view of the Milky Way from the front yard of our little rental house in Etna, California.

words and music - Chris Kee

lyrics

Down the road from Parson's Mill
came the bastard boy from the brindle hills
Eyes as dark as a blackbird's wing
song in his heart like a rainy spring

She was the parson's pride and joy
caught the blackbird eye of the bastard boy
She said, "I swore an oath I would not yield;
My heart will stay a fallow field.

So stand your ground
or go your way
Should you turn around:
Nothing but stars in the Jackpine wind
Blowing the blackbirds home again
Nothing but stars in the Jackpine wind
Nothing but stars.

Said the bastard boy with the blackbird eye,
"I call your oath a flock of lies, and if for love you will not yield,
I'll be a scarecrow in that fallow field."

Summer's flown, the year's grown old.
The fallow field has turned to gold
Black-eyed crows, they rise as one
A scarecrow's work is never done!

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from Nothing But Stars - 5 songs, released July 27, 2014

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Springhouse California

Music from the Americana Borderlands - from artsong to the roadhouse and places in between:
Chris Kee and Jane Selkye met in the San Francisco band Me Jane, and have played with David Phillips in various
groups for the last twenty years.
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