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Banjo Lullaby

from Settler by Malcolm MacWatt

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Intro: My daddy liked the whiskey
My daddy liked to drink
My daddy played the banjo
Or that banjo would play him
When drinking and a frailing
He’d let out a rebel yell
And we all knew that we were due
A night of living hell

Go to bed now my sweet children
And I will play something to help you sleep
Then he’d put metal picks upon his fingers
That’s when ma would start to weep
That banjo was so loud could wake the devil
So we would close our eyes and say our prayers
Sweet Jesus save our souls and all the while his fingers rolled
And all our dreams were nightmares and despair

CH: My mama would wail, my brothers would cry
And all the while daddy smiled and played his banjo lullaby
We would lie awake afraid and wild eyed
And all the while daddy smiled and played his banjo lullaby

Mama said he used to play the guitar
Said he used to be a righteous man
But one night he walked down to the crossroads
And he came back with a banjo in his hands

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from Settler, released November 25, 2021

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Malcolm MacWatt London, UK

“MacWatt will doubtless be considered among the best of the new breed of folksingers and songwriters, who speak of the past as a way to perhaps understand it and move forward” Stephen Rapid, Lonesome Highway

“He shines as a singer and he shines as an interpreter of the eternal folk songbook,” Tom Brosseau, The Great American Folk Show, North Dakota
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