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Crimson and Gold

from Nelson County Wayside by Colin Cutler

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lyrics

The mountains were covered with crimson and gold
And we walked hand in hand among the trees
But when we came to the stream, your hand turned icy cold,
I said I had to follow it down to the sea.

O darling, O darling, don't you shed a tear,
For as sure as summer's hot and winter's cold,
I go to seek my fortune, but I'll come back to you my dear,
And I'll cover your shoulders with crimson and gold.

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Crimson and gold I promised you
When I got home, if you were true.
Swore by the wind and by the stones
When I get home, when I get home.

For three long years, I was gone away,
And the wonders I saw cannot be told,
But the money I earned ran like water through my hands,
And I came back to port with no crimson or gold.

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When I walked back to the mountains, the branches were all bare,
And the stream and the wind were icy cold,
I found the trees were keeping watch over your grave,
And they'd covered it over with crimson and gold.

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Crimson and gold I promised you
When I got home, if you were true.
Swore by the wind and by the stones so cold
Crimson and gold, crimson and gold.

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from Nelson County Wayside, released April 15, 2016

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Colin Cutler Greensboro, North Carolina

Armed with a guitar, banjo, a brace of harmonicas, Colin tells stories of love and loss with characters wide open as a Midwest sky and wild as the mountains, with poetry thick as a Carolina swamp.

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