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Dink's Song

from Nelson County Wayside by Colin Cutler

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Modified from a song collected by John Lomax from an African-American singer in the levee camps of the Brazos River.

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If I had wing’s like Noah’s dove,
I’d fly the river to the one I love.
Fare thee well, my honey,
Fare thee well.

‘Twas one evening, in the drizzling rain,
And in my heart was an aching pain.
Fare thee well, my honey,
Fare thee well.

I had a woman, she was long and tall.
She moved her body like a cannonball
Fare thee well, my honey,
Fare thee well.

Once she wore her apron low.
You couldn’t keep me from her front door.
Fare thee well, my honey,
Fare thee well.

Now she wears her apron high.
Open your door, honey, but I won’t be by.
Fare thee well, my honey,
Fare thee well.

If you’d a-listened to what your mama said,
You’d still be sleeping there in your featherbed.
Fare thee well, my honey,
Fare thee well.

That muddy river is chilly and wild,
Can’t give a bloody, honey, for your unborn child.
Fare thee well, my honey,
Fare thee well.

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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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