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Come On Up to the House

Music Mondays

Listening to BluegrassCountry.org the other evening, I heard a neat song called Come On Up to the House recorded by Sarah Jarosz. The original version of Come On Up to the House is by Tom Waits.

Does life seem nasty, brutish and short?
Come on up to the house.
The seas are stormy,
and you can’t find no port;
come on up to the house.

Come on up to the house.
Come on up to the house.
The world is not my home;
I’m just a passin’ through.
Come on up to the house.

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Walking on the Blue Ridge Mountains

Music Mondays

Today’s featured song is Walking On the Blue Ridge Mountains – Blue Sparks by Larry Sparks. I heard it on the Bluegrass Country radio last week. This is a great song… the only thing I’d change is that it sounds like it has an electric bass :-( .

I saw Larry Sparks a few years back at the State Theatre in Falls Church, Virginia. It was a fine show.

Soon I’ll reach the old log cabin,
in the distance up ahead.
I’ll be home in the Blue Ridge Mountains,
where I’ll rest my weary head.

Walkin’ on the Blue Ridge Mountains,
walkin’ on, walkin’ on.
Walkin’ on the Blue Ridge Mountains,
walkin’ to my Blue Ridge home…

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