Our Songs

Trimmed & Burning

Trimmed & Burning Album Cover

  • You’ve Been That Friend To Me*

    A. P. Carter © 1936 Peer Music BMI

  • West Virginia, My Home*

    Hazel Dickens © 1975 HAPPY VALLEY MUSIC BMI

  • Banks of the Ohio

    Traditional - a 19th century murder ballad, written by unknown authors; first recorded by Red Patterson’s Piedmont Log Rollers on August 12, 1927

  • Nail That Catfish to a Tree*

    Steve Rosen © 1983

  • Christ Was Born in Bethlehem

    Traditional – learned from the singing of Jean Ritchie and Tim O’Brien

  • Oil in My Vessel

    Traditional – learned from Don Pedi who learned it from Joe Thompson, an “old-school” fiddler from the Piedmont of N.C.

  • Let the Lower Lights Be Burning

    Traditional - Words & Music: Philip P. Bliss 1871 (originally published in The Charm: A Collection of Sunday School Music (Chicago, Illinois: Root & Cady, 1871)

  • This World is Not My Home*

    Albert E. Brumley © 1936 Alfred Brumley & Sons SEASAC

  • On Jordan’s Stormy Banks

    Traditional - Words: Samuel Stennett, in Selection of Hymns, by John Rippon, 1787
    Music: Miss M. Durham, in The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, by William Walker (New York: Hastings House, 1835)

  • Pass Me Not Oh Gentle Savior

    Traditional - Words: Fanny Crosby, 1868; first appeared in Songs of Devotion, by Howard Doane (New York: 1870)
    Music: W. Howard Doane, 1870

  • We Believe in Happy Endings*

    Bob Lee McDill ©1978  RANGER BOB MUSIC ASCAP

  • Shoes & Stockings/Ruffled Drawers/Jamie Allen

    Traditional – great set of contra dance tunes

  • Precious Memories

    Traditional – J.B.F. Wright 1925 – one of Carol’s favorites she used to sing with her Dad

  • We Shall all be Reunited

    Traditional – by Alfred G. Karnes - Recorded in Bristol, TN July 28, 1927. Victor 40076

  • Deep Settled Peace

    Traditional - Kate Peters Sturgill

  • Lower Lights (Reprise)

Vacant Chair

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  • Where Could I Go?

  • Rosin the Beau

  • Hard Times

  • Down to the River

  • Silver Bells

  • Roseville Fair

  • John Ryan’s / Jenny Lind Polkas

  • Vacant Chair

  • My Own House / Shepherd’s Wife’s Waltz

  • Long Journey

  • John Brown’s March

  • Keep on the Sunny Side

  • Vacant Chair Reprise