1. |
Dreadful Dark
04:21
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One evening did fair Maggie go to the river side
Where young men were massing, to Missouri for to ride
Among the men she saw was her true Willie there
She picked him a sunflower and she placed it in his hair
Oh Maggie, dear Maggie, you cannot stay here long
Those evil Border Ruffians have done poor Lawrence wrong
We're out to kill those raiders for the blood that they have shed
So you must go back home and rest your pretty head
Oh, the night is dreadful dark
The night it is dreadful dark
Oh Willie, dear Willie, oh do stay here instead
Revenge is not the way to honor our poor dead
You must not leave me here by the cold Kaw river side
I thought we were to marry, fair Maggie she did cry
The boys they all rode off with angry battle cries
Maggie first did weep, then to her home did fly
She took her father’s rifle, and her brother’s clothes did wear
And with a Bowie knife cut off her yellow hair
Oh, the night was dreadful dark
The night it was dreadful dark
She raced to catch up with them, and with them she did ride
Joined with those bold Jayhawkers to be by her true love’s side
Fought with the boys that night on their bloody vengeful spree
The year that it happened was 1863
When they discovered their companion was a woman all along
Their manly pride was wounded, and with Willie watching on
They threw her in the river and let her body go
To the bottom of the Kansas where nobody would know
Oh, the water is dreadful dark
The water it is dreadful dark
So all you young people, this story you must hear
Cling closer to your loved ones and treat others’ lives as dear
Vengeance may seem righteous but love’s always right and true
And you'll suffer ever after for the evil that you do
Oh, hell is dreadful dark
Hell it is dreadful dark.
Lyrics © Kathryn Conrad
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2. |
Just Sayin'
02:06
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3. |
Corn Jail
03:04
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4. |
Picklin' Man
02:45
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Chorus:
Picklin man, picklin man
Oh I love a little pickle and I like a little picklin too
Picklin man, picklin man
Oh I like a little pickle but I love a little pickle with you
Pickles in the pantry, pickles in the cellar
Eating all them pickles yer a mighty briney feller
Salty sweat a-seeping out yer pores
Pickling the pigs' feet, sippin pickle liquors
Pickled peppers peeking out
the pockets of your knickers
Preservation passion I adore
Chorus
Picklin the okra, pickling the herring
Pickle watermelon if you think you would be daring
Spicey up them cherries how you do
Peeking in the crock where the kraut she is fermenting
Waiting for the pickle
is the thing you are lamenting
Biding time with ole whiskey next to you.
Chorus
There you were sitting down by the river
Pickle in your hand and a-pickling yer liver
Howdy how you make a poor girl swoon
Lips around a pickle in the middle of a pucker
If you was a baby you’d a think it was a sucker
Don’t dilly-dally, just send me to the moon
Chorus
© Lyrics copyright Julie Schwarting
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5. |
A Fairer Life
03:36
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A demon’s on my doorstep
He bade me for to roam
He danced with me in the autumn breeze
And he lured me from my home.
A fairer life imagined
Beyond the great divide
The journey fueled by one-eyed mule
With a six gun by my side.
The endless path well trodden
A blanket now the sky
Stars will play on the midnight stage
Sing a wishful lullaby
Hope will wane and weary
The babe is growing pale
Oh fever pains while a life it drains
Now she lies beneath the trail.
The trials there are many
Misfortune will conspire
Stake a claim where the soul can reign
The hesitant will mire
Desperation woven
On the loom of a lonely heart
A crimson flow on the silent snow
With the six-gun we did part
A Demon’s on my doorstep
He bade me for to roam
He danced with me in the autumn breeze
And he carried me back home
© Lyrics copyright Julie Schwarting
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6. |
Eve and the Snake
03:03
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Janie was so lonesome
She went out to the bars
She met a handsome fella
and they danced into the night
Bartender called last call, folks,
Time to go home
He offered her his arm and
Asked her out to roam
Eve, what you gonna do
When you meet that snake?
Eve, what you gonna do
When you meet that snake?
Liza was so jealous
She came from real poor folk
She never had nothing
To give her any pride
One day at the store
She spied upon the ground
A wallet lying there
Well, her eyes went dartin’ round
Chorus
Elsa had a husband
She loved him all too hard
She never could stand it
When he talked to another gal
She heard the neighbor lady
Had been visiting her man
The first thought to her mind was
Where do we keep that gun?
Chorus x2
© Lyrics copyright Tracy Floreani
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7. |
Forsaken
01:59
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8. |
Embarrassment of Riches
02:45
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9. |
Preacher Man
02:51
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10. |
Pine Box
02:08
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11. |
High and Dry
02:57
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12. |
Into the Darkness
02:49
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I’ll climb down into the darkness
I will wander across the lea
I’ll step out into the nighttime
For my love, my love to see
Oh my love, his beauty kills me
His sweet face is the remedy
I will brave the darkest forest
For my love, my love to see
Mother says his ways are not mine
Father says hard my road will be
But I’ll travel the darkest valley
For my love, my love to see
The wolves are calling in the nighttime
Where, oh where could my love be?
I stumble on, but can’t go farther
For my love, my love to see
He'll lay me down on a bed of flowers
'Round my head will roses be
When I lay down for my last hour, I
Dream my love, my love I’ll see
I’ll climb down into the darkness
I will wander across the lea
I’ll step out into the nighttime
For my love, my love to see
© Lyrics copyright Kathryn Conrad
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13. |
Darling
02:22
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14. |
Do Re Mi
02:42
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15. |
Possum
03:16
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Dark and stormy was the night
Possum running from his plight
Squeezed between the fence row tight
Slipped into the hen house light
Silently he moves below
Hens above doze in a row
Not so fast, but not so slow
He follows close behind his nose
Henny spied a shaggy hide
Snakey tail and beady eyes
Who are you, you handsome stranger?
Let me introduce to you
Mr. Possum Parvenu
Oh fairest maiden hereunto
I propose a rendezvous
Possum pleaded dance with me
Quick before the rooster sees
Wrap my fur around your knees
Come let’s have a jubilee
Silly Hen she was seduced
Flew the safety of her roost
Right into the arms of a stranger
There within the lofty lek
Hen got off a joyful peck
Possum seized her by the neck
She’s a goner sure by heck
Alerted to ole Henny’s woe
Rooster finally gave a crow
Farmer running tool in tow
Flew the door to view the show
With this shovel I could smite
A deadly blow to your toothy bite
Drop the hen you loathsome stranger
Prehistoric prehensile
just a furry crocodile
Feigning death with a drooly smile
You’re not worthy of my while
© Lyrics copyright Julie Schwarting
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16. |
Mennonite Boys
03:45
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17. |
Dead, Brown, and Dry
01:14
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MAW Lawrence, Kansas
MAW is a rowdy string band made up of Kansas women who like to play and sing songs about murder, mules, mining, and
morphine.
Kit Cole, fiddle, vocals;
Katie Conrad, mandolin, assorted stringed instruments, vocals;
Tracy Floreani, guitar, tenor guitar, vocals;
Julie Schwarting, upright bass, vocals;
Jeanie Wells, clawhammer banjo, guitar, vocals.
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