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Nothing Doing
03:27
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NOTHING DOING
Kate Power & Steve Einhorn
Nothing doing, nothing gained,
I’m tired of sitting on the rail,
A bolt of lightning, runaway train,
Like a hammer on the head of a nail
I’ve been lucky, I’ve been framed,
I’ve been set up and I’ve been shot down
If I’m right I’ll be with you tonight
before the rising moon goes down.
Chorus:
I’ve been waiting for you to say “Come on, come on”
You’ve been waiting for me to do the same
If we wait any longer, too long, too long
We won’t know what we’re missing till it’s way too late
Won’t know what we’re missing till it’s way too late
Sweet sugar, sweet honey baby
I’m shipwrecked on an isle of woe
You’ve got me crazy. I’m going insane
Lost in your sweet undertow (chorus)
Say you love me, say you do
I’ll be your forever and a day
I’ll love no other the way I do you
I’m waiting just to hear you say (chorus)
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Ole Dad
03:42
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OLE DAD
Kate Power
When I was falling like a leaf from the tree
I heard you calling my own name out to me
You picked me up before I hit the ground there beneath
And brought me to a place where I could feel what I would see
You gave it all in times of trouble
You never lost that easy smile
When I recall what it's come to mean to me
You taught me everything grows better
Big or small, all - you got to do is care at all
When I was looking to the road for relief
I saw you crossing that old river to me
You said I heard you could use some company
And I was feeling I could do with a little too
You knew it all before I told you.
You felt the call on a breath of wind
When I recall what I've come to share in you
It's like no other, the way we could share it all
You knew it all before I told you
You felt the call on a breath of wind
When I recall what it's come to mean to me
You taught me everything grows better
Big or small, all you got to do is care at all
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Bridget O'Malley
04:46
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BRIDGET O’MALLEY
Traditional Irish
Oh Bridget O'Mally, you have my heart shaken
With a hopeless desolation I'd have you to know
It's the wonders of admiration your quiet face has taken
And your beauty will haunt me wherever I go
The white moon above the pale sands
The pale stars above the thorn tree
Are cold beside my darling but no purer than she
I gaze upon the cold moon 'til the stars drown in the warm sea
And the bright eyes of my darling are never on me
My Sunday is weary, My Sunday it is gray now
My heart is a cold thing, my heart is a stone
All joy is dead in me, my life has gone away now
Another has taken my love for his own
The day it is approaching when we were to be married
And it's rather rather I would die than live only to grieve
Oh, meet me my darling ere the sun sets o'er the barley
And I'll meet you there, on the road to Drum slieve.
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4. |
Killing the Blues
03:31
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Leaves were falling just like embers
In colors red and gold, they set us on fire
Burning just like a moonbeam in our eyes
Somebody said they saw me swinging the world by the tail
Bouncing over a white cloud killing the blues
I am guilty of something
I hope you never do because there is nothing
Sadder than losing yourself in love
Somebody said they saw me swinging the world by the tail
Bouncing over a white cloud killing the blues
Now you ask me just to leave you
To go out on my own and get what I need to
You want me to find what I've already had
Somebody said they saw me swinging the world by the tail
Bouncing over a white cloud killing the blues
Somebody said they saw me swinging the world by the tail
Bouncing over a white cloud killing the blues
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5. |
Oracle
05:06
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ORACLE
Kate Power
So, what are you doing here, sonny, have you come to buy-o?
So many things of fine beauty, here before your eyes-o.
Freedom's why I've come, lady, though you seem disquised-o,
My time is near undone, lady, have you wings untried-o?
Living as I do beneath the ruins Fear has left me locked again inside
Give me but a key to this confusion, I've traveled far and darkness fills the skies-o
The lady in looking him over, around and round she'd go.
His heart began to flutter, her eyes they seemed to glow
Put your hand in mine for but a moment, take the touch and hold it in your soul
Leave it there alive, it is but kindling, there to burn your passage from the cold-o
As he stood there holding, a musical sound began
The tears within unfolding while in his ears it rang-o
Woman, have I sadness overflowing, or am I but your pawn to memory?
Let the rivers run to where they’re going, let the answer come, she said to me-o
In a full and a hearty crying till the rivers they came no more
Lifting his head a-sighing, his eyes were filled with more
The lady held a shawl of rainbow colour, shining on the collar was a star
Wear it 'round your shoulders till it shows no more, take it to your heart
and freedom's door-o
And when on the door you are knocking, the fire inside will be bright
And freedom will grow in the giving, and giving will grow in the light
The seed you came to find is yours to carry, fears will all be buried, by and by
Love will keep your heart and soul a-married
Until your earthly journey meets the skies-o
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6. |
These Are My Mountains
04:31
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THESE ARE MY MOUNTAINS
Scottish Traditional
For fame and for fortune I wandered the earth
And now I return to the land of my birth
I brought back my treasures but only to find
They're less than the pleasures I first left behind
CHORUS
For these are my mountains and this is my glen
The days of my childhood I’ll see them again
No land will ever tempt me, nor far will I roam
For these are my mountains and I'm going home
Just been by the road sign, and I’m going back
The lark overhead wings a welcoming cry
No longer the droll plight, it’s here I would be
There where my heart lies, there I'll be free
Kind faces will meet me and welcome me in
And oh how they’ll greet me back home again
This night round the fireside sad songs will be sung
At last I'll be speaking in my old mother tongue.
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7. |
Hillbilly Lovesong
03:38
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HILLBILLY LOVESONG
Steve Einhorn
Oh, what can I do?
I’m so in love with you
Oh, what can I say?
I’ll write you every day
Oh, I’m missing, I’m missing you
I miss our kissing, miss kissing you
Please come home to me,
I’ll turn off that big tv
I’m lonely, can’t you see?
I need you here alone with me
Oh, how I miss you, that ain’t nothing new
I’ll make you tea in the morning, rub your feet and kiss you
You turned out my light
I’m sleeping here alone tonight
I don’t want to fight, please take that return flight
Oh, I’m missing, I’m missing you-ooo
I miss our kissing, miss kissing you-ooo
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TENDER BIRD
(Other Side of Never)
Kate Power
Oh, Pa’s in the kitchen
He’s taken all that he can take
Oh, Ma’s been pitching
Everything gone wrong, every mistake
I’m trying to recall why I even try at all
I’d much rather roll than fall, it wouldn’t hurt at all
Oh woah, summertime’s unhitching,
Time to roll a little with the dice
Me, my head is itching
Everything I do has got me thinking twice
Cause I’m not over you
Sweet dreams on a broken fuse
Still leaves me so confused, and then I let it go
Not a second too soon, not a minute too late
Not a moment to lose or to hesitate
This is forever, the other side of never now
Oh, it’s not what you’re thinking
It’s not your fault, it never was you know
No courage in drinking, keep it eye-to-eye,
Let your green lights go
Cause you will do what you can to stew in as much as you understand
Just like a tender bird in my hand in time to let it go
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9. |
Major Minor Breakdown
04:15
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Banjo instrumental
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10. |
Some of Shelley's Blues
03:07
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11. |
Undressed Melody
04:22
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UNDRESSED MELODY
Kate Power
So alive with you by my side.
A day without you draws night within me.
How can I even try growing older without you now?
Every moment we carry in life
Holding together in sorrow and light,
Finding the morning with you by my side,
Fills me so gladly to feel you there.
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Kate Power & Steve Einhorn Portland, Oregon
Songwriters. Folksingers. Multi-instrumentalists. Artists. Writers. Teachers.
Raconteurs.
“Their music embodies reverence for this complicated, terrible, beautiful world that we live in. Kate's emotive voice rings with compassion and hope; Steve's spot-on guitar leads and wry sense of humor are grounding, organic, the perfect complement. All time stops when they sing together." - Tracy Grammer
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