Love Was the Price

from Bowling Green by Alice Gerrard & Mike Seeger

supported by
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

about

©words & music by Alice Gerrard, Agate Hill Publishing, BMI

Recorded by Mike Seeger at home in Garrett Park, Md 1980

lyrics

Forgotten, forgotten
Can no longer see
My eyes have gone blind, my soul can’t feel
The love we once had like a bird fallen down
Once gliding and soaring, now dyin' on the ground
Nothin to hold it, no nowhere to go
Just down to the marshes to lay and grow cold.

And it wasn’t in May,
No it wasn’t December
The place that love ended had no name and no number
One by one the doors closed and the walls grew higher
Torment the seller and destruction the buyer
Til neither knew how, til neither knew why
Just knew it was done and that love was the price.

credits

from Bowling Green, released January 1, 2008
Vocal duet
Alice-fiddle AEAE
Mike-cello AEAE

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

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

contact / help

Contact Alice Gerrard

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Alice Gerrard, you may also like: