Song of the Week: Letters - December 14, 2019
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Download Chris Thile\\u2019s Song of the Week for December 14, 2019: \\u201cLetters\\u201d
\\nThe band: Chris Thile, Sarah Jarosz, Mike Elizondo, Eric Doob, Chris Eldridge, Alex Hargreaves, Brett Williams
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\\n\\nLyrics:
\\nTELEGRAPH OPERATORS (Chris)
\\nSleep my child and peace attend thee
\\nAll through the night
\\nGuardian angels God will lend thee
\\nAll through the night
\\nSoft the drowsy hours are creeping
\\nHill and vale in slumber steeping
\\nI my loving vigil keeping
\\nAll through the night
\\nThough I roam a minstrel lonely
\\nAll through the night
\\nMy true harp shall praise sing only
\\nAll through the night...
\\n\\nLINCOLN (Sarah)
\\nMy dear Sir and Madam
\\nIn the loss of your noble son
\\nMy affliction here
\\nis scarcely less than your own
\\nOur acquaintance began less than two years ago
\\nYet I can proudly say we knew each other well
\\nAnd that the honors he labored for so laudably, and, in the sad end, so gallantly gave his life for, he meant for you, no less than for himself.
\\nMay God give you that consolation which is beyond all earthly power
\\nYours in our common affliction...
\\n\\nTELEGRAPH OPERATORS (Chris)
\\nLove's young dream, alas, is over
\\nYet my strains of love shall hover
\\nNear the presence of my lover
\\nAll through the night...
\\n\\nLINCOLN:
\\nDear Mrs. Ainesworth
\\nI\\u2019ve been informed by an adjutant general
\\nThat your noble husband
\\nHas died on the field of battle
\\nI feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine
\\nAs sorrow threatens to blot out the sun
\\nAnd blind you to what might yet be won
\\nLet the memory of the brave man you loved remind you
\\nRemind you
\\nHow much the prize of freedom is worth
\\nHow great the role is of death in rebirth
\\nAnd such peace as there exists on this earth
\\nWill find you find you find you
\\n\\nTELEGRAPH OPERATORS (Sarah)
\\nLove to thee my thoughts are turning
\\nAll through the night
\\nAll for thee my heart is yearning
\\nAll through the night
\\n\\nLINCOLN (Chris)
\\nDear Fanny I am deeply saddened
\\nTo hear of the death your father
\\nSadder still to think of the pain
\\nYour young heart is being made to suffer...
\\nDear George I too was a child when I lost my first parent
\\nDear Sir as you know I\\u2019m a parent whose buried his child
\\nSo I know what I say when I say that
\\nAs sorrow threatens to blot out the sun
\\nAnd blinds you to what might yet be won
\\nLet the memory of your father, husband, son remind you
\\nRemind you
\\nHow much the prize of freedom is worth
\\nHow great the role is of death in rebirth
\\nAnd such peace as there exists on this earth
\\nWill find you find you find you
\\n\\nTELEGRAPH OPERATORS (Sarah, then Sarah and Chris):
\\nThough sad fate our lives may sever
\\nParting will not last forever
\\nThere\\u2019s a hope that leaves me never
\\nAll through the night
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