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If I Could Love You More
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A modern imitation of an 18th century complaint, with cittern accompaniment.
singer songwriter acoustic folk british guitarist song celtic traditional fingerstyle scottish scotland guitar kelso
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Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.
I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.
Song Info
Genre
Classical Baroque
Charts
Peak #52
Peak in subgenre #2
Author
David Kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick
Uploaded
November 24, 2003
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.2 MB 128 kbps 3:30
Story behind the song
This song was written with the two-line ending of each verse as its start-point, a couplet invented when trying chord-shapes on a modally tuned six-course cittern. As usual, these accidentally sung lines dictated exactly what the whole song should be, and from there it was a matter of following the structure of traditional lyrics. The instrument is a recently made six-course (12 string) short scale cittern by Canadian luthier Peter Cox. It is strung with custom weight nickel wound strings, tuned GCDgcd.
Lyrics
It's often that my lady asks Why love so far must stray Why men can never constant be But seek new tunes to play Each time I give my answer As oft I've done before Oh I might love you better If I could love you more If in our bed you turn away And face unto the wall Should I yet lie cold there When warmer pleasures call? It's then I quit your silken sheets To lie on Sally's straw Oh I might love you better If I could love you more Happy is the sailor Returning to Leith Shore The pretty maids around him And silver in good store But my poor boat you cast adrift And lock your chamber door Oh I might love you better If I could love you more Happy is the soldier Who lists to serve the King For he may have one wife at home And ten to march with him I think I'll take the shilling And ride off to the war Oh I might love you better If I could love you more It's often that I tell her I'd love her with my life If I could but persuade her To be a constant wife And constantly to seek my love Which now she does ignore Oh I might love her better If she'd let me love her more!
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