Name: It's Been Ten Long Years
Duration: 2 min 50 s
Channel: Unknown
Description: Vocals: Jeff Anderson

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Vocals: Jeff Anderson

traditional celtic scandi

Kitsap Konnection

Old Time fiddling, melodic bango tunes, country vocals, and ethnic Scandinavian & european folk music.

Kitsap Konnection from Kitsap County in Washington performs a mix of old time fiddle tunes, Scandinavian polkas, and Bluegrass-Western Cowboy standards. Their music pieces are lively, toe tapping tunes featuring twin fiddles played by Marge Tonge and Tina Raineri; long neck banjo played by Bob Olson; stand-up bass played by Tom Tonge, and acoustic guitar and vocals by Jeff Anderson.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Bluegrass

Charts

Peak #153

Peak in subgenre #12

Author

Unknown

Rights

Pigboat Recording Studio

Uploaded

June 02, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.6 MB • 128 kbps • 2:50

Story behind the song

Tradional song about hard times.

Lyrics

It's been ten long years since I left my home in the hollow where I was born 

Where the cool fall nights make the woods smell right and the fox hunter blows him horn 

I fell in love with a girl from the town, I thought that she would be true 

I ran away to Charlottsville and worked in a sawmill or two 


What have they done to the old home place? 

Why did they tear it down? 

And why did I leave the plow in the field and look for a job in the town? 


Now the girl ran off with somebody else, tarriffs took all my pay 

And here I stand where the old home stood before they took it away 

Now geese fly south and the cold wind blows as I stand here and hang my head 

I lost my love and lost my home, and now I wish that I was dead 


(chorus)

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