Tell Me Their Story

from Bittersweet by Alice Gerrard

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©music and lyrics by Alice Gerrard, Agate Hill Publishing, BMI
Back roads, fields, an old house set back where no one lives anymore. Wonder what their lives were like....

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Whose footsteps walked this garden path
Now tangled vines and weeds
Whose face looked out this darkened window
What did she see?
Did she run to meet a lover
Did she watch for his return
Tell me, oh tell me—their story again.

Whose voices rang from room to room
Now empty, still, and cold
Whose roughened hands soothed fevered brows
And quietned troubled souls
Who lived, loved here now are gone
As though they'd never been
Tell me, oh tell me—their story again.

What friends and neighbors gathered here
To lend a helping hand
What witnesses to well-lived lives
Who witnessed at the end
Just an old, torn curtain hangin'
In this broken window pane
Tell me, oh tell me—their story again.

Just an old, torn curtain hangin'
In this broken window pane
Tell me, oh tell me—their story again.

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from Bittersweet, released May 1, 2013
Alice Gerrard-lead vocal
Beverly Smith, Laurie Lewis-harmony vocals
Bryan Sutton-guitar
Stuart Duncan-fiddle
Todd Phillips-string bass
Tom Rozum-mandolin

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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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