The Heart of a Song

 

I have really begun to pay attention to Bluegrass and Bluegrass style music.  There is something in the sadness of the tunes that I am so drawn towards.  I have a couple (three actually) that have really touched me and so since I am so down that today is Monday....and raining I thought I would share some music with you.  Just call this Music Monday....of The Heart of a Song.  I may do this on a regular basis.  Who knows.

 

The first is by The Band Perry and called Better Dig Two.  The songwriters are TREVOR JOSEPH ROSEN, SHANE L MCANALLY, BRANDY LYNN CLARK.  The song is quite haunting.

 

Better Dig Two

I told you on the day we wed
I was gonna love you till I’s dead
Made you wait till our weddin’ night
That’s the first and the last time I’ll wear white
*huff*
So if the ties that bind ever do come loose
Tie ‘em in a knot like a hangman’s noose.
‘Cause I’ll go to heaven or I’ll go to hell
Before I see you with someone elseChorus
Put me in the ground
And put me six foot down
And let the stone say
Here lies the girl whose only crutch was loving one man just a little too much
If you go before I do,
I’m gonna tell the grave digger that he better dig two!

Well it won’t be whiskey
It won’t be meth
It will be your name on my last breath
If the voice of death ever do us part
The coroner will call it a broken heart

Chorus
So put me in the ground
Put me six foot down
And let the stone say
Here lies the girl whose only crutch was loving one man a little too much
If you go before I do
I’m gonna tell the grave digger that he better dig two
Dig two

I took your name when I took those vows
I meant ‘em back then and I mean ‘em right now
Oh right now
If the ties that bind ever do come loose
If forever ever ends for you
If that ring gets a little too tight
Might as well read me my last rightsAnd let the stone say
Here lies the girl whose only crutch was loving one man just a little too much
If you go before I do
Gonna tell the grave digger that he better dig
Hey!
There'll be a stone right next to mine
We’ll be together till the end of time
Don’t you go before I do
Gonna tell the grave digger that he better dig two

I told you on the day we wed
I was gonna love you till I’s dead.

 

Since we are on favorites one of my other favorites is Jacob's Dream by Allison Krauss

 

In the spring of 1856, with the snow still on the ground
Two little boys were lost in the mountains, above the town
The father went out hunting, the boys had stayed behind
While mother tended to her chores, they wandered from her side

The two had gone to follow him and lost their way instead
By dusk the boys had not been found and fear had turned to dread
Two-hundred men had gathered there to comb the mountain side
The fires were built on the highest peak in hopes they'd see the light

Oh, mommy and daddy why can't you hear our cries
The day is almost over, soon it will be night
We're so cold and hungry and our feet are tired and sore
We promise not to stray again from our cabin door

Now Jacob Dibert woke one night from a strange and eerie dream
He saw a path between two hills near a dark and swollen stream
He told his wife he saw the boys huddled close beside a log
For two more nights the dream returned this vision sent from GodOh, mommy and daddy why can't you hear our cries
The day is almost over, soon it will be night
We're so cold and hungry and our feet are tired and sore
We promise not to stray again from our cabin door

A thousand men had searched in vain the west side of Bob's creek
But Jacob's wife knew of this place and said to travel east
With a guide to take him there, Jacob came upon the scene
And found the boys cold and still beneath the old birch tree

Oh, mommy and daddy, look past the tears you cry
We're both up in Heaven now, God is by our side
As you lay us down to rest, in the presence of the Lord
Know that we will meet you, here at Heaven's door

Oh, mommy and daddy, look past the tears you cry
We're both up in Heaven now, God is by our side
And as you lay us down to rest, in the presence of the Lord
Know that we will meet you, here at Heaven's door

 

 

Heart of the Wood by Jody and Rory is one that reminds me of my granddaddy.  I feel as if when Amanda and I are singing it....we are singing about him....and I love it.

 

I think what made granddaddy great is that he didn't work all day
I'd love the time we spent and I'd go everywhere he went
We'd end up on some old deer trail
And I'd listen hard as he would spin his tales

We were in a field of stumps he said I got a new one for you hon
These trees once stood tall and I'm the man that made them fall
I cut 'em up, sanded them down
And you wouldn't believe what I found

past the bark and all the scars
Our home was in the heart of those old trees
God bless who sowed those seeds
A hundred years and they just grew
And only heaven knew what they'd be, to our family
All that time to become what they should
you know Our home was in the heart of the wood

He smiled, said there's my favorite one, pointed at a cherry stump
He said I couldn't afford the one at Sears so the good lord planted one right here
He carved out what he saw within and he gave it to my dad when he turned ten

Past the bark and all the scars
There was a guitar in the heart of that old tree
All from just one seed
A hundred years and it just grew
And only heaven knew just what it'd be
And how that tree could sing
All the time to become what it should
There were songs in the heart of the wood

He said we can mark a tree to keep from getting lost
and it'll always point our way home like that old rugged cross

A hundred years and it just grew and only heaven knew what it'd be
And who'd hang on that tree it held the Son of God like it should
But I know it broke the heart of the wood

i think what made granddaddy great was that he didn't work all day
I'd love the time we spent
I'd go everywhere that old man went