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Who'll Watch the Homeplace

from Tear Down the Fences by Alice Gerrard & Kay Justice

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©Kate Long. This touching song captures the universal feeling of what home means to rural people.

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Leaves are falling and turning to showers of gold
As the postman climbs up our long hill
And there’s sympathy written all over his face
As he hands me a couple more bills.

Who’ll watch the home place
Who’ll tend my heart’s dear space
Who’ll fill my empty place
When I am gone from here.

There’s a lovely green nook by a clear running stream
It was my place when I was quite small
It’s creatures and sounds could soothe my worse pains
But today they don’t ease me at all.

In my grandfather’s shed there are hundreds of tools
I know them by feeling, by name
And like parts of my body they’ve patched this old place
When I move them they won’t be the same.

Now I wander around touching each blessed thing
Chimney, the tables, the trees
And my memories swirl round me like birds on the wing
When I leave here, oh who will I be?

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from Tear Down the Fences, released August 7, 2017
Kay Justice-lead vocal, guitar
Alice Gerrard-harmony vocal, lead guitar

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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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