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Walking Down to the Station
by Kim Beggs
Kim Beggs - vocals, guitar
Rick Fines - vocals, slide guitar
Kim Barlow - banjo
Bob Hamilton - upright bass
When my hands are so old and I’m all bent over
My knees are a wobblin’ .... its harder to pray
Will my heart stop aching?
When I’m walking down to the station
I might forget your anger, forget your name
And forget your blood
But remember the heart beat of my first one
When I’m walking down to the station
When my eyes are so cloudy I hope there’ll be beauty
To move me along
the top of this mountain yodleaaheehoo!
It ain’t so lonesome
When all the bells of my hearts heyday
Are flying with me
yodleaaheehoo!
When I’m walking down to the station
When I lose my self in a puddle of mud
In a puddle of rain
If I lose my confidence right downtown
I hope you’re standing by at the station
When I’m mostly dreaming, I hope you’re not waiting
You’re loving and living
I’m a little bit quiet but you’re still right here
When I’m walking down to the station
No need for tears on a sunny sunny day
At my great big party, with hearts all around
will you hold my hand?
yodleaaheehoo!
It ain’t so lonesome
When all the bells of my hearts heyday
Are flying with me
yodleaaheehoo!
When I’m walking down to the station
yodleaaheehoo!
When I’m walking down to the station
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Wanderer's Paean
04:28
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Wanderer’s Paean
by Kim Beggs
Kim Beggs - vocals, guitar
Bob Hamilton - vocals, rayco, upright bass
Annie Avery - harmonium
One cup of tea in the morning for me
A kiss while you sleep
The sun rising up brings a tear to my eye
My heart tells me get along my way
I heard the train last night, whistled refrain
hooo hooo hooo, wanderers paean
I heard the train last night, whistled refrain
hooo hooo hooo, get along my way
I’m the one from my kin whose blood won’t stop burnin’
Wandering bones and skin
The saddle round my heart it cinches at night
When I start to thinkin’ I’m home
You shone your love in this stone that ain’t true
And my skies are heavy and blue
But with the clothes on my back, grub and coins in my sack
My heart tells me get along my way
Hand clasping hand, pull me up from the tracks
By strangers won’t never look back
Boxcar my freedom, railroad my bath
Sundown by clickity clack
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Lay It All Down
02:40
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Lay It All Down
by Kim Beggs
Kim Beggs - vocals, guitar
Natalie Edelson - vocals
Burke Carroll - pedal steel
Bob Hamilton - mandolin, upright bass
I crawl out from the sea
To my footprints with my knees
And I’m laughing out loud
As I roll with my back to the ground
Apple down from the sky
It wrings right through my mind
Then I lay it all down
Just the way that it falls to the ground
You can ride my train it’s free
And it won't run out of time
What they see is a crooked line
What they hear is crooked time
Cause I lay it all down
Just the way that I fall to the ground
No knots or benders in my mind
Are you brave enough to walk my line
Feel like I’m rocking your boat
It ain’t me what has to keep it afloat
But you can ride my train it’s free
And it won’t run out of time
Walk a steel line, whistle my tune
Life’s a riddle like a rock in my shoe
I throw my ear to the ground
Gonna catch that old blue coming round
If you want it, you got it
If you lose it then I’ll let it go
But you'll be crying out loud
As I roll from the heart of this town
Cause you can ride my train it’s free
And it won’t run out of time
I crawl back to the sea
For the moon I could not reach
And I’m laughing out loud
As I roll with my back to the clouds
I lay it all down
Just the way that I fall to the ground
I lay it all down
Just the way that I’m lost and I’m found
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Up From the River
02:38
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Up From the River
by Kim Beggs
Kim Beggs - vocals, guitar
Bob Hamilton - rayco, upright bass
Annie Avery - harmonium
I passed through my Mama in her last cry
I kept warm in the blood of her thighs
They told me that I took her life
On that cold winter morning she gave me mine
My Papa swore he’d be comin’ home
Before the winter, before I’m born
He didn’t want to leave poor Mama to cope with
My poor Papa died in the cold, cold war
Up from the river I am flyin’
To the place in my heart where it’s dyin’
Up to the sky no more crying
My Mama’s gonna sing me a lullabyin’
Raised at the river by the old ones tryin’
Their best in the hard times and baby’s cryin’
For the arms, the spirit, the blood of my family
The song in my heart calls me to heaven
Make a tea of my bitter view
Make it strong, make it true
Make it sweet with the morning dew
It’s ready when my love pass through
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Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow
traditional
Kim Beggs - vocals, guitar
John Showman - vocals, violin
Patrick Hamilton - banjo
Bob Hamilton - upright bass
Ain’t gonna work tomorrow
I ain’t gonna work today
Ain’t gonna work tomorrow Lord
For that is my wedding day
I love my Mama and my Papa
I love my Mama and my Papa too
Love my Mama and my Papa too
And I’d leave them both to go with you
I been all around this country
I been all around this world
I been all around this country Lord
For the sake of one rising sun
I’m leaving you this lonesome song
I’m leaving you this lonesome song
I’m leaving you this lonesome song
Because I am gonna be gone before long
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Lips Stained Red with Wine
by Kim beggs
Kim Beggs - vocals, guitar
Bob Hamilton - vocals, rayco, upright bass
Restless in one family knot
My heart beat unbraided thoughts
And I too bramble to be taut
Beyond this mountain bid me come
Lips stained red with wine
Up all night with the stars they shone
Firelight wakes the dawn
When will my song be sung
Sisters ribbons all undone
And their husband’s hats are hung
And I too bramble to be stung
For yonder mountain, my heart strums
A babe in arms make woman render
Mama mourned with eyes so tender
That I too bramble to surrender
On one mountain we did sunder
Lips stained red with wine
Up all night with the stars they shone
Firelight wakes the dawn
When will my song be sung
A maiden still I journey through
With walking stick and heart stained blue
Not I too bramble, too fermenting
Yonder mountains streams are quenching
Lips stained red with wine
Up all night with the stars they shone
Firelight wakes the dawn
To sing ’til day is done
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Heartache Shoes
03:44
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Heartache Shoes
by Kim beggs
Kim Beggs - vocals, guitar
Anne Louise Genest - vocals
Bob Hamilton - vocals, lapsteel, upright bass
Annie Avery - organ
you’re big and you’re bashful
you stumble when you’re weazin
when you were born you smell like wine
that was back in sixty-nine
it’s not that she didn't love you
your mother, she lost her way
when she got down, she got real weak
and no one wants to see
you’re depressed and you’re angry
the world has trouble making room for you
i want to make it better
and i’m so far away
brother from another head space
brother going at a slow pace
brother trying to win the race
in your heartache shoes
you were only three months when
they found you in that dark cabin
with solid food, no breast for you
from the old man who cared for you
you showed up on our porch
in a wicker woven basket
mother opened her heart
and she took you right in
she wonders if she gave enough
but i know she gave it all and more
angel opened her door
and she took you right in
your spirit keeps leading you
winnipeg, toronto, vancouver
main and hastings, scott mission, bus station
stony mountain
they got you on chlorpromazine
to take once a day
some days you don’t take it at all
some days you take ten
you’re depressed and you’re angry
the world has trouble making room for you
i want to make it better
and i’m so far away
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Feel a Little Glum
01:53
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Feel a Little Glum
by Kim beggs
Kim Beggs - vocals, guitar
Bob Hamilton - vocals, mandolin, upright bass
I feel a little glum today
Don’t got much to say
Don’t feel like sayin’ hello
My darling slipped away with no goodbye
I woke up you were gone away
I know your heart did not sway
For me I’m sorry dear
My darling slipped away with no goodbye
Snow is fallin’ from the sky
Fillin’ in your snow-angels outside
Sad man pantomime
My darling slipped away with no goodbye
Tears are pourin’ from my hazel eyes
As I watch the angels wavin’
Stealin’ the reins of my heart
Oh my darling slipped away with no goodbye
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Pioneer and Doctor
02:34
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Pioneer and Doctor
by Kim beggs
Kim Beggs - vocals, guitar
Anne Louise Genest - vocals
Keitha Clarke - violin
Pioneer and Doctor
EEodelee aayday
Living by the river
Watched the sun go down
One last time
By the old fires burning
Chorus:
Hear him playin’ his violin
Hear them singin’
The old songs
In my heart keepin’ time
Minstrel and thinker
EEodelee aayday
Can’t make a living playing the wood
Heard about that the world was round
Time to set sail
Follow the sun
Sailed west on the ocean blue
EEodelee aayday
To a place where they felt brand new
Far and away from our view
And crooked smiles
Left us behind
They made it across the blue
Here's how I know
I hear him playin’ his violin
I hear them singin’ Singin’
Old songs
In my heart ain’t so blue (keepin time)
Singing old songs
By the new fires burning
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All the Good Times Are Past and Gone
traditional adapted by Kim Beggs
Kim Beggs - vocals, guitar
Bob Hamilton - vocals, rayco, upright bass
Annie Avery - harmonium
All the good times are past and gone
All the good times are over
All the good times are past and gone
Little darling don’t you weep no more
I wish to the lord I’d never been born
Or died when I was young
I never would have seen your sparkling blue eyes
Or heard your beautiful song
Don’t you hear the turtle dove
That flies from pine to pine
He’s morning for his own true love
Just like I mourn for mine
Don’t you see the passenger train
Goin around the bend
It’s takin away my own true love
To never return again
Come back, come back my own true love
And stay a while with me
If ever I’ve had a friend in this world
You’ve been a friend to me
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Banks of the Yukon
03:10
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Banks of the Yukon
by Kim Beggs
Kim Beggs - vocals, guitar
Bob Hamilton - vocals, upright bass
Natalie Edelson - vocals
Burke Carroll - pedal steel
Annie Avery - harmonium
He was walkin’ in his sleep
On a trail as old as the river
Sleepy Hollow people light
Their lanterns when it’s night
On the banks of the Yukon
Gonna call him in for tea
It’s burnin’ cold outside
His weeping frozen to his face
Ice fog climbs over the bank where there’s woebegone
It can smell a broken heart
From miles and years away
It finds him and wraps him
And licks his whiskey tears away
This blanket of frozen tears, the ghost of river sorrow
Oh his darling, he’s lost without her
The river, took her broken heart last spring
He was walkin’ with no pain
He remembers her lovin’
The smell of her on him is gone
He’ll come in winter to cry the ghost of river sorrow
In his heart he hopes she’ll be there
His darling, if he could hold her once more
He was walkin’ in a dream
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Close By
02:30
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Close By
by Bill Monroe and Robert Van Winkle
Universal Cedarwood Publishing Inc. (BMI)
Kim Beggs - vocals, guitar
Anne Louise Genest - vocals
John Showman - violin
Bob Hamilton - upright bass
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Shipyards' Song
03:42
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Shipyards' Song
by Kim Beggs
Kim Beggs - vocals, guitar
Kim Barlow - banjo
Bob Hamilton - upright bass
As I wondered through our old neighbourhood
I scoured the ruins for a trace of where you stood
Looking out your window looking at me looking at you
Through the panes all cracked and shaded blue
Through the rain we could see each other
In the bitter cold we could be friends
It’s because of this place that our worlds skimmed enough for us to fall in
And that we could build something from all our broken pieces
Weaknesses hold strong together
It’s the magnitude of need that keeps it steady
But the mortar can worn away or shattered or negotiated
By the aggression of progression and greed
They want to get rid of the filth, the junk and the ugliness
Take the waterfront from the people just like every other city
Follow the path of destruction, cover up the past with a blacktop
Give it to them with the money so they can build a big box
One by one they took their toll upon us
They tore our houses down just to be sure
As the walls came down around us, our insides turned to dust
Oh the devil, let loose upon our souls
Sure they found most a sliver and land outside the city limits
But starting from scratch is not easy when you're on a pension
The shock of the change and the burden, was too much for some to handle
It crept up behind them and pulled them six feet under
As I wandered through our old neighbourhood
I imagine my home and yours and hers and theirs
What ever happened to us, it wasn’t so long ago
That we could be found laughing along the river
Laughing along the river
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Kim Beggs Yukon
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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