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How Can I Keep From Fishing

from Sun to Sun by Alice Gerrard

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about

A song that someone handed me 20 (+/-) years ago after playing a concert with Brad Leftwich in Bozeman MT. Said it was to be sung to the tune of “How Can I Keep from Singing”. It lived for years in piles of paper until one day I ran across it and thought what a great song it was, and that Tati and Reed would be perfect to sing it with; then started trying to find the person who wrote it, which I couldn’t. I’m grateful to the unknown person who thought I’d like it back so many years ago, and was right.

lyrics

A fly tied on a graphite rod
Above my head is swishing
A mountain stream
A sportsman’s dream
How can I keep from fishing?

No job can stop my angling thoughts
For everyday I’m wishing
That life could pay
It’s own sweet way
And I could keep on fishing.

For when the river
Round me roars
I know the fish they liveth
For when they bit
A well tied fly
I know the joy it giveth.

No job can stop my angling thoughts
For everyday I’m wishing
That I could quit
Put up a sign
That simply says
Gone fishin’.

credits

from Sun to Sun, track released October 17, 2023
Arr by Alice Gerrard; recorded live at Jack Fleishman’s studio in Durham, NC by Joseph Dejarnette; mixed by Joseph ‘joebass’ Dejarnette.
Alice Gerrard: lead vocal
Tatiana Hargreaves: harmony vocal
Reed Stutz: harmony vocal

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Alice Gerrard Durham, North Carolina

A singer and songwriter, Alice’s recordings with Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and ’70s influenced a generation of women musicians from Laurie Lewis to the Judds. Nominated for a Grammy in 2015, she was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Assoc. Hall of Fame in 2017. A documentary film about Alice, "You Gave Me a Song" premiered at the Full Frame Independent Film Festival in 2019. ... more

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