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Tecumseh Valley

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this is a townes van zandt cover. there are different versions i've heard of him performing this song where he uses the word "walking" rather than "whoring" and with "grief" rather than "hate" to make it more vanilla for general audiences.

townes van zandt.

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the name she gave was caroline, daughter of a miner. her ways were free and it seemed to be the sunshine walked beside her.
she come from spencer, across the hill, said her pa had sent her,cos coal was low and soon the snow would turn the skies to winter.
she said she'd come to look for work, she was not seeking favors. for a dime a day and a place to stay, she'd put them pretty hands to labor.
but times were hard and jobs were few, all through tecumseh valley, but she asked around and a job she found tending bar at gypsy sally's.
she'd saved enough to get back home when spring replaced the winter. but her dreams were denied. her pa had died. the word come down from spencer.
so she took to whorin out on the street with all the hate inside her. it was many a man returned again to lay himself beside her.
they found her down beneath the stairs that lead to Gypsy Sally's. and in her hand when she died was a note that cried, "fare the well, tecumseh valley."

the name she gave was caroline, daughter of a miner. her ways were free and it seemed to me the sunshine walked beside her.

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from Mountain Songs, released March 25, 2008

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this act began in 2004 and just turned fourteen years old. it's been surviving on the fringes of interest since the day it was first conceived. it's worth doing. it's that thing of realising you are your own best friend and you need to take as good of care of yourself as you possibly can and in so doing you learn to take care of everyone else. ... more

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