Beauty and Breaking

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1.	Beauty and Breaking 03:57	lyrics	buy track
Beauty and Breaking By Kim Beggs key of D 6m 6m 6m 6m 2m 2m 6m 6m 1 1 1 6m 6m 2m 2m 6m 6m 1 1 6m 6m 3m 3m 6m 6m verse intro Kim Beggs - guitar, vocal David Baxter - electric guitar, piano Brian Kobayakawa - bass Roman Tome - percussion John Showman - fiddle Suzie Ungerleider - harmony vocal Heard the crack on the evening When they told me that you would be taken I knew that something was wrong The fever inside you was strong Oh ooh oh Time spent on the rivers and mountains That moonshine makers had found Walkin’ and findin’, mappin’ and blazin’ Cookin’ and burnin’, sleepin’ and yearnin’ Oh ooh oh Oh ooh oh When you left, my soul it was shaken Time all alone would be hard Harder than all my thinking in spring Harder than beauty and breaking Oh ooh oh break Oh ooh oh I remember the crack in the evening When I heard your last breath leaving The look in your eyes couldn’t tell me good-bye Something inside me is keeping Oh ooh oh Oh ooh oh
2.	Not Only, Only From The Whisky 03:21	lyrics	buy track
Not Only From The Whiskey By Kim Beggs Key Cm 1m1m1m1m 1m1m1m1m1m1m 4m4m4m4m 4m4m4m4m1m1m 1m1m1m1m 1m1m1m1m1m1m 5555 55551m1m 1m1m1m1m 1m1m1m1m 1m1m1m1m 551m1m Kim Beggs - guitar, vocal David Baxter - electric guitar Brian Kobayakawa - bass Roman Tome - percussion Jay Burr - trombone Justin Rutledge - banjo Sweet Alibi - harmony vocals OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo What you give Not only, only from the whiskey Is what you get, it’s a Pretty old - old story Bottle’s empty Not only, only from the whiskey Put the worry in the Old - old mans belly OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo Be mine, you can’t be Not only, only from the whiskey You say you want me but All-you-do-is kick me Troubled times Not only, only from the whiskey Was I a temple or Your ramblin’, travellin’ bag? OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo Break OOhWoos x 4 Down on your knees Not only, only from the whiskey You say you want me All-because-you-miss-me Bad Weather Not only, only from the whiskey Because you left me in The willow - the willow and pine OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo Wish I could keep you Not only, only from the whiskey The sweetest kisses On-the-darkest-mountainside When I die Not only, only from the whiskey Bury me in The willow - the willow and pine OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo OOhWoo
3.	Not A Mermaid Song 02:59	lyrics	buy track
Not A Mermaid Song By Kim Beggs Key E 1 6m 1 6m 1 6m 2m 2m 6m 6m 1 6m 1 6m 1 6m 2m 2m 6m 6m 3m 1 6m 4 1 5 5 6m 6m 5 5 6m 5 5 Kim Beggs - guitar, vocal, harmony vocal David Baxter - electric guitars, piano Brian Kobayakawa - bass Roman Tome - percussion John Showman - fiddle May Loo - mermaid vocal Kim Barlow - harmony vocal Out on the ocean babe Moon has her way with you Moon toss and turn with you Hey - you sailor mean I’m not your mermaid I got no sea legs But I’ll be your lady when you’re Anchored in the bay It ain’t so easy When my heart goes out to sea And leaves me hollowed on the shore You pick my heart just like you Pick my pocket when we‘re Speaking easy Shivers and a glass of cheer And then we’re blinded Pigs in the blanket Yummy yummy ‘til the Tide pulls you back out with moon It ain’t so easy When my heart goes out to sea And leaves me hollowed on the shore Bridge break 5 5 6m 6m 5 5 6m 5 5 Blue as the ocean babe Your heart has sailed away Well sail on back to me Hey - you sailor mean I’m not your mermaid I got no sea legs But I’ll be your lady when you’re Anchored in the bay It ain’t so easy When my heart goes out to sea And leaves me hollowed on the shore Not so easy When my heart goes out to sea And leaves me hollowed on the shore Ooohhh ooohhh
4.	Oh Boy 02:45	lyrics	buy track
Oh Boy By Kim Beggs key C 1 1 5 5 1 1 5 5 4 4 1 1 4 4 1 5/1 1 5 5 1 1 4 4 1/5 1 1 Kim Beggs - guitar, vocal, harmonies David Baxter - electric guitar, mandolin Brian Kobayakawa - bass Roman Tome - percussion Burke Carroll - pedal steel Sue Passmore - harmony Standing on a rocky shore All the time since he was born Sweetest heart and a mother’s love Come pouring through from heaven above He wears black but he plays in blue One shoulder high the other makes do He plays and he plays and he plays his tune Til the light comes shining through the winter’s moon Oh Boy went fishing in a-waters blue Oh Boy went looking for his way through Oh Boy knows about something true And he hopes the morning comes around soon Break When he plays, she always sings She dances to all the trouble he brings When he plays she shines and watches and drinks She wears velvet and a ruby red ring He wears black to cover his tracks Only she can find him dressed like that He goes out walking on a lonesome path She never knows when he’s coming on back Oh Boy went fishing in a-waters blue Oh Boy went looking for his way through Oh Boy knows about something true And he hopes the morning comes around soon Oh Boy knows about something true And he hopes the morning comes around soon
5.	Gold in The Ground, Gold Unfound 03:50	lyrics	buy track
Gold in the Ground, Gold Unfound By Kim Beggs Key G 1 1 2m 2m 5 5 4 1 1 1 4 4 5 5 4 1 3m 3m 2m 2m 6m 6m 5 1 Kim Beggs - guitar, vocal David Baxter - electric guitar Brian Kobayakawa - bass John Showman - fiddle Bob Wiseman - keys, harmony Kim Barlow - harmony Staring out the window at the cold and snow On the mountains and the trees and the old dirt road Wonder how it came after summer up and gone I wonder how I stayed to sing along this song Is it in the air? is it in the ground? Is it in our own or in the earth’s veins and bones We find this treasure to help us feeling better But if we take it all she can’t give all-out forever Gold in the ground, gold not found Gold in the ground, gold not found My blood does good, when it stays inside me I cook and I clean, I kiss and hug yee Gold does too, my eyes just can’t see The embrace of this place when I’m down on my knees Gold in the ground, gold not found Gold in the ground, gold not found Break Verse Butt old steel blue and the black top too Makes it harder and harder for the soul to get through But it’s some compelling, right underneath you Beneath iron, and concrete and the cold hard truth Gold in the ground, gold not found Gold in the ground, gold not found Gold in the ground, gold not found 3(7) 6m 5 1
6.	A Sailor's Daughter 02:31	lyrics	buy track
A Sailor’s Daughter By Kim Beggs Key G 1 1 5 5 4 4 1 1 4 5 1 1 5 5 4 4 1 Kim Beggs - guitar, vocal, harmony Brian Kobayakawa - bass Bob Wiseman - keys, harmony vocal Kalen Wong Schumann - little girl vocal By the winding river I can see you I wave and hope you come by soon I made you a pie and tea It’ll take you a while to get to me (4 5 5 1 1) extra bar in here To me Get to me On the winding river Get to me In summer you send me verses Like daisies, lilies and twigs in purses And a song in the sound of water Heard by a sailor’s daughter A daughter A sailor’s daughter On the winding river A sailor’s daughter In autumn the leaves are red And when they come I know we’ll be wed In the sun when the water flows In the wind your lips will blow To me A kiss for me On the winding river A kiss for me Break In winter the leaves are down No mother to make me a wedding gown For a song in the sound of water Heard by a sailor’s daughter A daughter A sailor’s daughter On the winding river A sailor’s daughter In spring the leaves are sweet I wave and hope that we will meet I baked you a fish from the sea One that swam to me A daughter A sailor’s daughter On the winding river A sailor’s daughter A daughter A sailor’s daughter On the winding river A sailor’s daughter
7.	Le Chemin de Rondin - Corduroy Road 03:37	lyrics	buy track
Le Chemin de Rondin / Corduroy Road By Kim Beggs and Leith Hill key B 1 1 1 1 4 4 4 4 1 1 1 1 5 5 5 5 5 5 2m 2m 4 4 1 1 5 5 2m 2m 4 4 5 5 6m 6m 6m 6m 4 4 1 1 6m 6m 5 5 4 4 6m 4 5 5 1 1 1 Kim Beggs - acoustic guitar, vocal David Baxter - electric guitar, mandolin Brian Kobayakawa - bass Roman Tome - percussion John Showman - fiddle Treasa Lavesseur - accordion, harmony I found something in the attic coffer A love letter written by my great grandfather With tears that smudged, to my great Me Mere Inside a fiddle with a lock of her hair. Gabrielle, I have loved you so long From the east coast to this northern town My mother’s son, made a husband to thee Your father’s daughter, made a wife for me J’entends la mélodie éloignée. Une qui m’ appelle toujours Parmi les pins mon âme s’est réveillée. Sur la route le chemin de rondin Floor boards creaked as I lifted the gem From it’s resting place from way back when I pulled the long bow over the sinew Heard a voice and the letter continued Gabrielle, play the fiddle for me The final verse in our harmony Your lumberjack fell to the frozen ground Play the fiddle as they lower me down I hear a sweet, and distant melody One that always calls to me Through the ragged pines my soul awoke Bringing me home by the Corduroy Road Break Birds sat quiet the wind got still Gentle night brought a quiet chill As the words rang out they kindled inside For a lumberjack and his Acadian bride Gabrielle, play the fiddle for thee Your families’ old time melodies That held our hearts while we broke the ground We made a home out of timber and sound J’entends la mélodie éloignée. Une qui m’ appelle toujours Parmi les pins mon âme s’est réveillée. Sur la route le chemin de rondin I hear a sweet, and distant melody One that always calls to me Through the ragged pines my soul awoke Bringing me home by the Corduroy Road
8.	River Green, Ocean Blue 03:31	lyrics	buy track
River Green, Ocean Blue By Kim Beggs Key B 1 5 4 1 4 1 5 1 4 1 5 5 4 1 5 5 Kim Beggs - guitar, vocal David Baxter - electric guitar, tambourine, 2nd acoustic guitar Brian Kobayakawa - bass Roman Tome - percussion Burke Carroll - pedal steel John Showman - fiddle Sue Passmore - harmony vocals You’re sweet and miss me Running up the alley dark Scared of something don’t know what Dark inside your mind and heart Tumble down and kiss me Shuffle through your day is done Worried ‘bout the dropping off Narrow missed the frozen part River green with eyes that see Ocean blue, a little like you Walk a block and hit me With a dose a laughing art Don’t think twice as hard me Double down and get your queen Lift your glass and cheer me Up above the world so high Bless the fiddler keepin’ time Get us through with winter wine River green with eyes that see Ocean blue, a little like you Verse break Lay your head and sing Counting ways a bell does ring Off to church or buy the round Dream of being here and now River green with eyes that see Ocean blue, a little like you River green gonna get through Darling you oo oo Ocean blue oo oo Gonna get through
9.	A. J. Goddard Shipwreck 03:56	lyrics	buy track
A. J. Goddard Shipwreck By Kim Beggs Key of F 1 6 4 5 1 6 4 5 1 1 1 3/6 6 6 2 5 1 1 1 3 6 6 2 5 1 1 Kim Beggs - guitar, vocal David Baxter - electric guitar Brian Kobayakawa - bass Roman Tome - percussion Bob Wiseman - keys, harmony vocal I once was a floating paddle wheel Til 1901 there was a powerful storm Tossed us around and broke our ability Plunged us into the heart of Lake LaBarge Now I’m just a deep dark frozen feeling Deep dark waters are not exactly rosy, when I’m Looking up through the lake at the blue of the sky Hoping to be found, maybe even in the morning I’ve been sunken here a hundred years Missin’ my dead friends and their salty tears The water so cold and so breathless It’s taking care of me, my metal and wood, Time’s gone by and the world’s still around Don’t need me no more, they’re faster than sound But their bones are achin’ for calamity Shipwreck obsession will be the life of me Now I’m just a deep dark frozen feeling Deep dark waters are not exactly rosy, when I’m Looking up through the lake at the blue of the sky Hoping to be found, maybe even in the morning I have been in this womb long, long time Wouldn’t mind to see the other side Don’t slap me too hard, for my bones might break Be ever so careful for my heart is at stake Break In open air, the chances increases Of a waterlogged hull falling to pieces But new friends with salty tears come down To see me and touch me, I am lost and found. I’m just a deep dark frozen feeling All this water has made my vision blurry Doesn’t matter, I don’t seem to be in a hurry Hoping to be found, maybe even in the morning I’m just a deep dark frozen feeling Deep dark waters are not exactly rosy, when I’m Looking up through the lake at the blue of the sky Hoping to be found, maybe even in the morning
10.	When I Walked Out On You 02:36	lyrics	buy track
When I Walked Out On You By Kim Beggs Key B 1 1 4 1 5 4 5 4 1 1 1 4 1 5 4 5 4 1 2m 2m 1 1 2m 2m 4 5 2 2 4 1 5 5 4 1 4 4 1 1 4 4 1 1 4 4 1 1 5 4 1 1 Kim Beggs - guitar, vocal David Baxter - electric and 2nd acoustic guitars Brian Kobayakawa - bass Roman Tome - percussion Burke Carroll - pedal steel Sue Passmore - harmony vocal And when I walked out on you It was nothing new And I know in all that you shook me You tried to be true I had my back to the wall When I was under it all You couldn’t hear me no not anyone You were drunk and too tall Up in the clouds but under the dew Engine is dirty and smoke is the hook Gotta reason to love but hate is the crook For the ones who have hurt you left you black and blue And when you walked out on me It was nothing new And you know in all that I shook you I tried to be true You had your back to the wall When you were under it all I couldn’t bear you, no not anyone Til the dark was undone Up in the clouds but under the dew Engine is dirty and smoke is the hook Gotta reason to love but hate is the crook For the ones who have hurt me left me black and blue break Verse Get along little birdie, get along Smooth your feathers cause the wind is strong Get along little birdie, get along Back to the tears when the heart beats were young And when I walked out on you It was nothing new And I know in all that you shook me You tried to be true
11.	Working On The Railroad 03:20	lyrics	buy track
Working On The Railroad By Kim Beggs Key D, Capo 7 G shape 1 1 4 6m 6m 6m 6m 5 5 4 1 1 5 5 4 4 5 5 4 1 1 1 1 2m 2m 4 4 4 1 1 2m 2m 4 4 4 1 1 1 1 Kim Beggs - guitar, vocal David Baxter - electric guitar Brian Kobayakawa - bass Justin Rutledge - banjo, harmony vocals The sun hasn’t shone in the valley so long It’s been fifty-three years since you’ve been gone Snow’s filling the night, no twinkling stars While I rock in my chair wondering where you are Where did my heart go? Over the hills and out of this hole And left me rocking here With only memories and the letter you wrote I read that letter, last time today It was old and brown from age and decay But it sang with the ink and your familiar stroke You went west for the riches, working on the railroad I thought our love was strong, I never felt so high As high as the sunny, sun true blue sky I still remember the day, I still see you face When you rode away from our sweet embrace Working on the railroad. Over the mountains and out of this hole And left me rocking here With only memories and a letter you wrote And a promise to marry when you made enough money Sweet talking, I gave you my honey Shotgun lonesome heart is musty Now the train’s is old, and the tracks are rusty Working on the railroad. Over the mountains and out of this hole And left me rocking here With only memories and a letter you wrote Break The sun hasn’t shone in the valley so long It’s been fifty-three years since you’ve been gone
12.	And Now I'm Running From The River 02:59	lyrics	buy track
And Now I’m Running From the River By Kim Beggs Key E 1 1 5 5 6m 6m 4 5 6m 6m 4 6m 6m 4 4 4 4 Kim Beggs - guitar, vocal David Baxter - electric guitar Brian Kobayakawa - bass Roman Tome - percussion Burke Carroll - pedal steel Natalie Edelson - harmony vocal Suzie Ungerleider - harmony vocal Standing on the frozen river Under the starry sky It’s good have them nearer They know what’s best for me. Ohhh So many rooms ago and bad dreams Still comin round No matter how I try to close those doors I still miss those falling stars Now I’m wishing on a river Under the starry night Feels so good to have them nearer But they’ll want the best of me. Ohhh Why don’t I ever stop losing All I hold so dear And now I’m running on the river So my mind can clear Break Verse Ohhh Why don’t I ever stop losing All I hold so dear And now I’m running on the river So my mind can clear Old memories keep unraveling Inside this teary night But if I stay on too long It will mean the best of me Ohhh Why don’t I ever stop losing All I hold so dear And now I’m running from the river And now I’m running from the river And now I’m running from the river From the starry sky that wants me near But I miss those falling stars
13.	Moonshiner 03:20	lyrics	buy track
Moonshiner Traditional key Am Am Am/F F C C C C G G Am Am/F F C C C C G G F F G G C C F F Am Am/F F C C C C G G Kim Beggs - guitar,vocal David Baxter - electric guitar Brian Kobayakawa - bass Roman Tome - percussion Christine Bougie - lap steel Paul Reddick - harmony vocal, harmonica I’ve been a moonshiner for seventeen long years I spent all my money on whiskey and beer I go to some hollow and set up my still And if whiskey don’t kill me, then I don’t know what will I go to some barroom and drink with my friends Where woman cannot follow and see what I spend God bless them pretty women, how I wish they was mine Their breath is as sweet as, the dew on the vine Let me eat when I’m hungry, let me drink when I’m dry Give me dollars when I’m hard up, religion when I die The whole world’s a bottle, and life is but a dram When a bottle gets empty, it sure ain’t worth a damn
14.	Way Too Soon 03:52	lyrics	buy track
Way Too Soon By Kim Beggs Key C (G Capo 5) 1 5 7 4 1 5 6 4 3 3 4 4 6 6 5 1 1 5 7 4 1 5 6 4 3 3 4 4 6 6 5 1 3 3 4 4 1 1 5 5 6 6 6 6 4 4 5 1 Kim Beggs - acoustic guitar, vocal David Baxter - electric guitar, piano Brian Kobayakawa - bass Roman Tome - percussion Christine Bougie - lap steel Sue Passmore - harmony Kara Manovich - harmony Sky was blue, blue as you As me just trying to make it through Sun goes down here way too soon And me I read the news Wind does blow and makes it cold As ice inside a heart untold Winter comes here way too soon And me I’m losing you Pennies fall from a blown out pocket I don’t notice like I used to Once were worth their weight in gold Worth their weight so I was told Snow is cold hurts my face Can’t seem to walk out there with grace Old man comes up here way too soon And me broken in two Ground is frozen to the bone A heaving shelter of my own Friends are talking way too soon And me no tears ‘til June Pennies fall from a blown out pocket I don’t notice like I used to Once were worth their weight in gold Worth their weight so I was told River running through here madly I walk out to meet it oh so gladly Song for sixpence gone way too soon A penny for this tune
15.	No Water in Their Bones 02:56	lyrics	buy track
No Water in Their Bones By Kim Beggs Key C 1 5 4 4 1 5 4 4 1 1 1 5 4 4 1 5 4 4 4 4 5 3m 5 4 4 6m 6m 4 4 6m 6m Kim Beggs - guitar, vocal David Baxter - electric guitar, harmonium, bass string electric guitar, 3rd electric guitar Brian Kobayakawa - bass Roman Tome - percussion Burke Carroll - pedal steel Justin Rutledge - harmony vocal Forest fire, fifty years gone Tall charred timbers standing on Black and blue are not what you ought to Looking out wondering, when the rains will come It burned and spread, like wild anger From a man, whose pain was a dagger Over and over and over it lingered Left with bruises on fist and fingers No water in their bones No fire in their hearts There’s nothing there to break apart Those flowers won’t bloom after dark Break Something red and something stronger Keeps you down and keeps you longer Than you ever would, never before And can’t get loose and can’t get more, no more Ashes rest around pink darlings Oh when it blows and they spread their seeds They move and flow young pioneers bringing Though something long ago ain’t singing No water in their bones No fire in their hearts There’s nothing there to break apart Those flowers won’t bloom after dark Those flowers won’t bloom after dark

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released September 25, 2013

produced by David Baxter with Kim Beggs

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11 time music award nominee and ne’er a winner!

With 2018 Independent Music Award 2018; 2018 Western Canadian Music Award plus 6 more; & 3 Canadian Folk Music Awards

"Ranked #1 on my [2014 & 2011] Polaris Music Prize ballot is Kim Beggs... Focused. Universal. Canadian." says
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