Name: Mandolin
Duration: P00H03M23S
Description: Mortality, essence, ancestors, and what remains when everything passes away and crumbles into the ground. I was thinking about all of this when writing this song about my grandfather’s mandolin.

Mandolin

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Mortality, essence, ancestors, and what remains when everything passes away and crumbles into the ground. I was thinking about all of this when writing this song about my grandfather’s mandolin.

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I can see you
Uncrumbled from the ground
Come in the side door
Sit your body down
Smell of tobacco
Flicker of the flame
Snap of the lighter
Written with your name

I’m an acorn
That fell far from the tree
Still the root grows
The same for you and me
Here’s your mandolin
Won’t you sing and play
Polly Wolly Doodle all the day

All the day oooh eee…
Oh I went down South
Li di di di di du di di du
Fare the well oh fare the well
Oh fare thee well

Oh the mist is
Hanging in the trees
Mushrooms rise from
Beneath the rotting leaves
The way all our hands will
Crumble to the ground
The way love and music
Will always be around

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from The Go Janes, released December 9, 2022
Kathleen Tracy guitar, vocals
Patrice O'Neill vocals
Arni Adler vocals

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The Go Janes Seattle, Washington

The Go Janes feature original tunes, ukulele, guitar, and generous doses of delicious harmony. Arni Adler, Patrice O’Neill, and Kathleen Tracy (pictured l-r above) have decades of experience as performers, visual and recording artists, community organizers, educators and inquisitive consumers of life. ... more

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