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One Kind Word
03:12
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The Honey Dewdrops - One Kind Word
My head is cold like my hands and feet
I’m looking around for something to eat
I’ve got time got nowhere to go
Broke down here close to the bone
I don’t want everything I see
I just want the little bit you promised me
Silver spoon gold diamond ring
New leather shoes and finery
I don’t want what you gave to me
Promissory notes and worthless things
What I got I can’t use
When I get lonely over you
I don’t want everything I see
I just want the little bit you promised me
I don’t want for what I need
A heart that beats and lungs to breathe
Ear to the ground all the time
For one kind word that’s mine all mine
One kind word I’ve waited for
Just your love and nothing more
I don’t want everything I see
I just want the little bit you promised me
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Hills Of My Home
04:20
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The Honey Dewdrops - Hills of My Home
Hills of my home I see so clearly
Running from down south and way up north
Committed now to my memory
Hills of my home ain’t there no more
Machines have sat atop the mountains
What they did we allowed them to do
We closed our eyes all the while
'til there’s nothing left in our view
Did we care for what was given us?
Are we better off than before?
How long can this crop sustain us?
In the end where will we have to turn?
You say we’ve been put to the purpose
What we gave gone on to the greater good
But the giving was never about us
The greater good was never for the greater good
And if there’s money ‘neath the ground I never seen it
They took everything we ever had
The soil and the streams above the coalfields
Are but a scar now upon a broken land
Did we care for what was given us?
Are we better off than before?
How long can this crop sustain us?
In the end where will we have to turn?
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The Honey Dewdrops - No More Trouble
Bad news baby at quarter to 2
Woke up in a sweat at quarter to 2
Was a world of trouble coming for you
Worry worry baby at quarter to 2
Deep night voices at half past 3
Were clear as the day at half past 3
Said happiness grows when you sow good seeds
Bound to reap what you sow at half past 3
Sow good seeds with love through and through
No more trouble will bother you
Way down in a dream at 5 to 4
Message from your muse at 5 to 4
Said love don’t keep got to give it to the world
Let go of your love at 5 to 4
Early in the morning at 5:22
Look yourself over at 5:22
Make up your heart so kind and true
Don’t wait one minute more at 5:22
Sow good seeds with love through and through
No more trouble will bother you
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4. |
Let Me Sing
04:06
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The Honey Dewdrops - Let Me Sing
Let me sing with my own voice
Make my words clear and true
Give me time ‘til my song is through
Let me sing let me sing
Let me work with my own hands
Through the day and all night too
Give me time ‘til my work is through
Let me work let me work
Let me love like a wild river runs
Strong and free from God’s own hand
Give me time ‘til I love like that
Let me love let me love
Let me go and make me free
Break the chains that wrap me ‘round
Give me time ‘til I get where I’m bound
Let me go let me go
Let me sing with my own voice
Make my words clear and true
Give me time ‘til my song is through
Let me sing let me sing
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5. |
Catawba (Instrumental)
02:23
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6. |
Silver Lining
03:37
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The Honey Dewdrops - Silver Lining
All the long nights I spent with you
Wishing that the morning
Would wait off on our warning
And lay back in the east
Slow as a slow heart beat
Let us lay where we lie
Let us alone you and I
All the moonless nights crept up on us
We wanted for the dawn
To hurry and come on
And rush up in between us
Draw a line be the end of
The dark over you and me
The dark don’t let you be
Silver lining
(You’re just like a silver lining)
You’re my silver lining
(in a cloud)
When it don’t look good
I’m always finding
(you’re always winding through the sky)
You’re my silver lining
I can see the clouds for what they are
Out of my control
Real but not to hold
Shifting in the sky
Laying low and flying high
Showing where the colors hide
In the space between you and I
Silver lining
(You’re just like a silver lining)
You’re my silver lining
(in a cloud)
When it don’t look good
I’m always finding
(you’re always winding through the sky)
You’re my silver lining
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7. |
Happiness
04:29
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The Honey Dewdrops - Happiness
What do I know?
About the shape I’m in
All I know is what I don’t
Want to do again
And what I don’t know
Could fill a book
That goes on and on
Down roads I never took
To what is good
And fine and true
What I could never
Ever hold on to
And happiness ain’t happiness
It’s a compromise
More or less
I’m more at peace being reckless
And happiness has got nothing
to do with happiness
What am I?
The passing kind
A change in the weather
Could change my mind
Holding on
Is hard I know
It’s so much harder
Than letting go
Of what is good
And fine and true
All them things I could
Never hold on to
And happiness ain’t happiness
It’s a compromise
More or less
I’m more at peace being reckless
And happiness has got nothing
to do with happiness
What I want
I could never face
I could never get close
To hope or love or grace
To hell with the good
And fine and true
All them things
I could never ever get close to
And happiness ain’t happiness
It’s a compromise
More or less
I’m more at peace being reckless
And happiness has got nothing
to do with happiness
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8. |
Together Tied
04:32
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The Honey Dewdrops - Together Tied
The country inn motel
In Wadena, Minnesota
Has a view of highway 10
You can watch the tractor-trailers
The rails run by the road
And there’s 19 trains a night
And I think about you brother
As they go rolling by
A thousand miles or more
Can’t fade my memory
And this familiar feeling
Never gets out of me
Home like water collects us by and by
And reaches over distance
To hold us together tied
Many times I’ve heard
What I know is not true
That home is just a place
You can never get back to
And what is home my brother?
If not love and you and me
If not a river between us
Running restlessly
Home is in the leaving
The last words around the table
The last sun in the evening
The last time we were together
Home like water collects us by and by
And reaches over distance
To hold us together tied
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9. |
It's Hard to Pray
04:06
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The Honey Dewdrops - It’s Hard To Pray
It’s hard to pray, it’s hard to pray
It’s hard to keep on asking
When the answer don’t come
When wishes don’t come true
When mercy don’t take shape
When my restless soul is waiting
It’s hard to pray
All the same I pray for rain
Feel like wildfires follow me
And I cannot get away
All the way from the Pamlico
Out to Los Alamos
I pray for rain over many miles
But all I see is smoke
Still I pray I pray for repair
For the damage done beyond control
By floods and hurricanes
Water has its way
Of rearranging things
Breaking levees, breaking trees
Breaking up families
Even so I say a prayer
For the baby girl and her mama too
Who I met the other day
At 10 months and 17
They made a pretty pair
I put two dollars in their can
It was all I had to spare
In spite of it all I still pray
With a wandering whispering tiny sound
For the wind to blow away
They carry far
They settle near
I let my words go where they will
When I say a prayer
It’s hard to pray it’s hard to pray
It’s hard to keep on asking
When the answer don’t come
When wishes don’t come true
When mercy don’t take shape
When my restless soul is waiting
It’s hard to pray
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10. |
Somerset (Instrumental)
01:49
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11. |
Bright Morning Stars
02:54
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The Honey Dewdrops - Bright Morning Stars
Bright morning stars are rising
Bright morning stars are rising
Bright morning stars are rising
Day is a-breaking in my soul
Oh where are our dear fathers?
Oh where are our dear fathers?
They are down in the valley a-praying
Day is a-breaking in my soul
Oh where are our dear mothers?
Oh where are our dear mothers?
They have gone to heaven a-shouting
Day is a-breaking in my soul
Bright morning stars are rising
Bright morning stars are rising
Bright morning stars are rising
Day is a-breaking in my soul
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The Honey Dewdrops Baltimore, Maryland
Virginia born, Maryland based singer/songwriters Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish make up the duo The Honey Dewdrops. They will release their seventh album, Light Behind Light, on April 15, 2022.
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