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No Sorrow For Me

by Swift Years

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I Tried 02:50
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Carla 04:28
Well, you always wanted to be among the bright lights Incandescent up upon the stage But they had you sewing costumes, and I was out of work, And neither one of us could turn the page You always wanted people to come over But you weren’t on the sexy side of town Now there’s a jumping little jazz-joint just beneath where you used to live There are people coming in from miles around. There’s fog upon the windows, bright eyes and rosy cheeks Something sizzling on the stove that smells like home There are pints of porter being poured, and witty repartee And nobody seems to be alone I remember all your first days in the city Days and nights spent getting lost and found I remember when you cut off all your long blonde Alice hair You thought that it was only tying you down Your kitchen table in your first apartment The smell of black tobacco and red wine The sight of you resplendent in your granny’s fake fur coat In the Bar St-Laurent at closing time I remember all the street-life and the parties Ours were like Fellini and Cocteau I remember taping pennies to the needle when we danced To records on your plastic stereo Ah, but this happy scene it couldn’t last for ever We both wounded each other good and sore But later, when the shouting was all over We both wound up much stronger than before Since then I got my news all from a distance I was glad to hear the sound of opening doors I know it’s shallow to think it makes a difference But me too, I’m kind of partial to applause It’s been twenty years since you were taken from us Waked and wept and laid down in your grave I kept a job and raised a son to manhood Stayed hitched and mostly managed to behave Like everybody else I feel the autumn It seems a long, long time since spring has sprung You were frozen in the moment of your blooming But you always liked that song Forever Young. (Patrick Hutchinson ©2010 SOCAN)
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we do as an instrumental, but... CHTO MYNE GORYE/WHAT DO I CARE? (aka No Sorrow for Me/Qu’importe le chagrin) Let the guitar sound, let it not tire, Let the strings cry out to one another! As through a drunken fog I see your eyes, Through the refrain of a song I hear your laughter!" What do I care? It is possible in a lifetime To drink up the whole sea. Be still, my heart! Higher, higher, Raise the glasses filled with old wine! No longer a sound of gypsy songs, All the gypsies are asleep now, But as long as there's champagne in the glass, Life or death are all the same to me! (translation from liner notes of Theodore Bikel Sings Songs of a Russian Gypsy)
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Van Dyke's 02:44
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WATER & STONE You stand firm like a rock; I flow round like the water I’m an old dreamer’s son; you’re a businessman’s daughter I’ll smooth your rough edges, as onward I flow You’ll give me some grit to take on as I go We’re not water and stone, we’re just skin flesh & bone We don’t have geological ages In this moment of life, we’ve got no time for strife We’ve still got unwritten pages You’re my own chosen city, on a hill proudly set I’m tired & polluted, but I’m not done yet I’ll cajole & caress you, as I pass by your sides I’ll kiss your royal mountain, while I’m bound for the tides We’re not water and stone, we’re just skin flesh & bone We don’t have geological ages In this moment of life, we’ve got no time for strife We’ve still got unwritten pages (Patrick Hutchinson ©2010 SOCAN
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Yonel, Yonel 03:41
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Regina Rag 02:57
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Album le plus récent de Montréal Worldbilly tripod Swift Years

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released November 18, 2010

Produced by Swift Years, recorded & mixed by Jean-Guy Montpetit @ Studio Créason, Montréal.
Patrick Hutchinson - guitars, voice
Bob Cussen - mandolin, banjo, bouzouki, voice
Suzanne Ungar - bass, voice
...with guests Belfast Andi MacGabhann on voice & bodhrán (tracks 1, 7 & 17) & John Wiens on violin (tracks 9, 15, 17)

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Swift Years Montréal, Québec

18-stringed Worldbilly trio from Montréal: "Hotter than a plate of pierogis, cooler than the sour cream on the side." (Montreal Gazette) "Un vrai bijou de l'underground montréalais." (Le Devoir)
Bob Cussen: mandolin etc
Patrick Hutchinson: guitars
Suzanne Ungar: bass
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