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Halloween 2022: Halloween Day
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Halloween 2022: Day 30
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Halloween 2022: Day 29
In the night, there’s a cry from the hill country ground.
It’s a hum from an ancient tone.
It’s a presence. I can feel it in my bones.
Somethin’ I can’t see has been surroundin’ me,
There’s a ghost trying to talk through me. Read the complete lyrics. Listen to South Austin Jug Band’s performance…
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Halloween 2022: Day 28
With the blues all around my bed.
I got up this morning,
With blues all around my bed.
I had a dream last night
The one that I loved was dead. Read the complete lyrics. Listen to the performance of Roscoe Holcomb…
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Halloween 2022: Day 27
That money would set me free, If I’d but murder that dear little girl
Whose name was Rose Connolly. Read the complete lyrics. Listen to the performance of Tim O'Brien & Paul Brady…
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Halloween 2022: Day 26
Dig a hole in the cold, cold ground.
Dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadows,
Gonna lay darlin’ Cory down. There are many versions of this song. Read more here. Listen to Driftwood Company’s performance…
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Halloween 2022: Day 25
She stirs around each evenin’, but never in the light.
Haunts me and she taunts me and fills my heart with fright.
I hear my Callie callin’, callin’ every night. Sometimes she whispers, other times she screams.
It’s hard to tell the difference, if she’s real or in my dreams.
She’s the creakin’ in the ceilin’, the knock upon the door,
The wind outside the window, and the footsteps on the floor. Listen to Milan Miller’s performance…
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Halloween 2022: Day 24
As oft time had done before,
But little did he think when they parted that night
Sweet Anna he would see no more. It was about the tenth of May,
The time I remember well,
That very same night her body disappeared
In a way that no one could tell. Read the complete lyrics. Listen to the performance of the Kossoy Sisters…
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Halloween 2022: Day 23
And stove it through his troubled heart,
Saying, “Goodbye, Katie, goodbye darling. The time has come for us to part.” There are many versions of this song. Read more here. Listen to the performance of Brennan Leigh & Noel McKay…
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Halloween 2022: Day 22
Way back where the mountain laurel grows,
On cool October nights, with a lantern shining bright,
There’s something out there walking through the darkness all alone,
Creeping through the darkness all alone.
Read the complete lyrics. Listen to Front Range’s performance…
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Halloween 2022: Day 21
“Why sit you like a monument, have you no power to stir?”
He called her once, he called her twice; she answered not a word.
He asked her for her hand again, and yet she never stirred. There are many variations of this song. Read more here. Listen to the performance of Grandpa Jones…
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Halloween 2022: Day 20
The cold rain falls, and the trees bow down.
I can hear my darlin’ softly callin’,
But she’s asleep in the cold cold ground. Read the complete lyrics. Listen to the performance of The Grascals…
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Halloween 2022: Day 19
Lord Orland struck the very next blow, and Matty struck no more.
And then Lord Orland took his wife, and he sat her on his knee,
Saying, “Who do you like the best of us, Matty Groves or me?”
And then up spoke his own dear wife, never heard to speak so free,
“I’d rather a kiss from dead Matty’s lips than you or your finery.” Lord Orland he jumped up and loudly he did bawl,
He struck his wife right through the heart and pinned her against the wall.
“A grave, a grave, ” Lord Orland cried, “to put these lovers in,
But bury my lady at the top for she was of noble kin.” Read the complete lyrics. Listen to the performance of Alela Diane and Alina Hardin…
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Halloween 2022: Day 18
Her body’s still layin’ in Blackadders Cove. Read the complete lyrics. Listen to NewFound Road’s performance…
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Halloween 2022: Day 17
My mind is to drown you and leave you behind. Read the complete lyrics. Listen to Doc Watson’s performance…
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Halloween 2022: Day 16
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Halloween 2022: Day 15
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Halloween 2022: Day 14
Witches of Harlan haunt Black Mountain Ridge.
Some say at midnight they roam the mountainside
Searching for anybody that isn’t safe inside.
No, I hear ‘em whisper in the pines,
I hear 'em calling to me
To come on outside. Read the complete lyrics. Listen to the performance of Breaking Grass…
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Halloween 2022: Day 13
Fine as any blade,
Then I felt his blood pour fast and hot
Around me where I laid. Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
Wear them rattling chains,
But when I go to sleep at night
Don’t you call my name. Read the complete lyrics. Listen to the performance of The Greencards…
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