[dcab-l] Fred Moore Original: Momma's Gone

 

Songwriters & Music Lovers:

 

Fred Moore from Philadelphia, a singer-songwriter and friend for many years, has

created many excellent original songs through the years. 

 

This selection, Momma’s Gone, is particularly poignant, and has been in my own

repertoire for years.  It’s a “Mother Song” so popular in bluegrass and other genre, and

describes Daddy’s heart rending decline after Momma’s death.  Words appear below.

 

 

Rattlesnake Hill Musicians:

 

Jack Sanbower     Banjo

Ed Schaeffer         Rhythm, Lead Guitar & Vocal

Carolyn Kellock     Bass

Heather Twigg      Fiddle & Harmony

Kevin Conroy        Mandolin

 

 

To listen, click:  http://rattlesnakehill.org/Web_Music/edsmusic.html

 

Ed

 

(As always, turn up and headphones preferred)

 

 

 

                              Momma's Gone            G

                                   Fred Moore

 

Chorus:       Momma's gone n' Daddy's all alone

            In this world with no one to confide

            I believe the race is nearly run

            Daddy drifts away since Momma died

 

                    The gray hair on his weary head

                    That once so neatly combed did lay

                    Now tossed, disheveled n' betrayed

                    Daddy drifts since Momma passed away

 

Chorus:

                     

                    The hours pass in a dream

                    n' Daddy holds on by a thread

                    His life don't seem to mean a thing

                    Wake n' sleeps the same now Momma's dead

 

Chorus:

 

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[dcab-l] Traditional Song: I've Just Seen the Rock of Ages by John Brenton Preston

Songwriters & Music Lovers:

 

John Brenton Preston (known as Brenton), from Paris, Kentucky, was someone who

constantly found himself incarcerated.  A one-legged man, he always carried a harmonica,

and was known as the “harmonica-playing man”; there is a harmonica engraved on his

tombstone.  After Brenton’s death in 2013, his daughter, Cora Williams, inherited

notebooks full of his songs, stories, and poems, and even a book he wrote in prison.

 

While in jail, Preston landed in solitary confinement.  As he sat on the cold, damp

cement floor the inspiration for a song came to him, which turned out to be “I’ve Just

Seen the Rock of Ages”. Afraid of forgetting the words, Preston found a pebble and

scratched the words on the cement floor.  Good story of a lonesome song!

 

Of note to country and bluegrass fans, while Preston was out on parole, in the 70s, Ralph

Stanley and Preston became acquainted and traveled together to several festivals in

Ralph’s bus.  Ralph included “I’ve Just Seen the Rock of Ages” into his repertoire, and

Keith Whitley, Larry Sparks (and others) would sing lead.

 

 

Rattlesnake Hill Musicians:

 

Ed Schaeffer         Rhythm, Lead Guitar & Vocal

Peter Sittner          Bass

Tad Marks             Fiddle

 

This song was originally recorded with an H4n handheld, including bass, guitar and

vocals, but no overdubs.  Later, the tracks were moved to Gantt Kushner’s Gizmo

Studio to add Tad Marks’ fiddle.

 

To listen, click:  http://rattlesnakehill.org/Web_Music/edsmusic.html

 

Ed

 

(As always, turn up and headphones preferred)

 

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