Music

A Selection of Lyrics by George E. Clark
  
 I write songs that matter to me today, often drawing on old time and other folk traditions.
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Implement of Destruction

Vroom!

Singers Glen  (with audio file)

A love story set in the Shenandoah Valley during the U. S. Civil War.

Jamaica"Fork of Shenandoah River, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia" by Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8c14994

A sea chanty about religious persecution, white privilege, and the cycle of violence.

Cold Comfort

A parent grieving for a son.

Noemi’s Daughter

A bluegrass gospel poem about failing to live up "Young Woman Looks at a Route Map..." by Jim Pickerell, Environmental Protection Agency, National Archives, ARC Identifier 556822to your biblical heroes.

Suburban Hymn  (with sheet music and lyric sheet for church bulletin)

To the tune of “A Mighty Fortress is Our God.”

Old Man’s Reel (The Curse of Middle Age)

The cognitive dissonance of getting older.  Read this one through to the end.

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2 Responses to Music

  1. Read the lyric book that Emily got–this is great. Really swell to keep discovering these excellent Clark endeavors. Brad.

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