I learned this beautiful fragment of a baptist hymn from Freeman Van Gilder, recorded by Chapel in 1939. The song reminds me of the numerous times in my own life that I have wanted to leave behind all the ills of society and start over somewhere in the wild, and several times I have tried. But I always came home hungary and lonely. We're not very close to nature anymore and I know many of us feel the sting of this reality. To me this song expresses the intense longing to be living in a more natural way and for the peace and spiritual fulfillment that would come with this.
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from Green Are The Woods,
released June 13, 1999
Learned from Freeman Van Gilder, L. W. Chappell Collection, 1939
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I'm a player and not an ethnomusicologist or historian.
I probably re-interpret every tune I learn to make it mine.
I have no problem with anyone else doing the same.
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