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I always wanted to write something with some homage to my very deep Irish and UK roots, and work with a real bagpiper. I recorded this a few years ago, and finally released it as a video single, waiting to find the right album to put it in. The lovely Noah Wall (The Barefoot Movement) leads her fiddle and voice to this tragic suicide ballad, my old friend Brian Knave plays the snare marches, Richard Jasper on bagpipes, and Alex Sturbaum on Bodhran.

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I walk alone to where to she waits for me

Though we say constantly, “this should not be”

Her hair of gold, with eyes as blue as sky

I choose to live a lie, we would deny

To someone else, that we did both betray


Though we are gone astray, we do agree


This can’t go on, but we can’t run away
“
Just one more night” is what we always say

This love we share, it isn’t fair, you see

We made a vow to be, another’s faithfully


And then back home, I to my wife confess

I made her life a mess, and broke her hear
t
My lover stayed, his heart she wouldn’t break

For I am her mistake, and I will start


Out on my own, far from my family


I gave up selfishly, my world apart

I can’t go home, no, I can’t run away

Here with my shame, I long for yesterday

I made a vow to be, another’s faithfully

I hung a rope for me, up in the highest tree

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from Ever Trust a Prankster?, released October 31, 2023
Mike Lawson - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Bass, Bass Drum

Brian Knave - Snare Drums

Noah Wall - Backing Vocals, Fiddle

Richard Ian Jasper – Bagpipes

Alex Sturbaum - Bodhran

Words and Music by Michael Edward Lawson

Copyright 2022 – Psychotronic Music – BMI

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Mike Lawson & Friends Nashville, Tennessee

Mike Lawson has, over 30 years, recorded and/or performed together with Merl Saunders, Vince Welnick, Vassar Clements, Pete Sears, Gary Talley, John McEuen, Bob Welch, Dennis Robbins, Joe Louis Walker, Jorma Kaukonen, Phil Keaggy, Jack Casady, Scott Guberman, Dianne Davidson, Noah Wall, Tyra Juliette, Bill Vitt, Rob Wasserman, Michael Cleveland, Phil Madeira, and a host of other amazing friends. ... more

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