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Put together from videos sent from the JPH band during the 2020 COVID19 quarantine.

In the Spring of 2020 we were all given the gift of longing for something we couldn't have. But that same longing has been the lifeblood behind the great romances, tragedies, cities and songs that comprise the fabric of our humanness.

May we continue to fall into complete longing to find what we truly desire.

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Early In The Spring:

Early, early in the spring
I was pressed onboard to serve my king
to leave my dearest dear behind
who oft had told me her heart was mine

as I hold her in my arms
I thought she had 10,000 charms
with compliments and kisses sweet
promised to marry the next time we'd meet

as I sailed all oe'r the seas
I took this kind opportunity
to write kind letters to my dear
but nothing from her could I hear

til I wrote to her father's hall
and for my dearest love did call
saying "where's the darling of my eye
where all my joy and comfort lie?"

the old man rose and then replied
"young man I fear you'll be denied
my daughter's married a richer life
therefore I pray seek another wife"

o curse all gold and silver too
yes curse a girl that won't prove true
and one that will her promise break
and another wed for his riches sake

I'll stay no longer here on shore
but cut my way where the canon roar
yes cut my way where the bullets lie
and sail the seas till the day I die

"billy billy stay on shore
don't cut your way where the canon roar
nor cut your way where the bullets lie
there's many a handsomer girl than I

if you wrote kind letters to this town
I can prove to you I received none
if the fault is great the fault's not mine
so don't reflect on the female kind"

as I was walking London street
a letter I saw beneath my feet
and on its back these words were wrote
our constant love is near forgot

so dig my grave both wide and deep
place a marble stone neath my head and feet
and on my breast a turtle dove
to show to the world that I died for love

credits

from Distantimacy, track released May 8, 2020
voice:

Blair Bowman
Zachary Jordan
Melanie Dailey
Tate Viviano
Thomas Michael Sizemore

archival audio:
Lomax, Alan, Elizabeth Lyttleton Sturz, and Pearl R Nye. Early in the Spring. November 3, 1937. Audio. www.loc.gov/item/afcnye000044/.

violin, composition, and mixing:

Jordan Parker Hoban

mastering:

Danny Collins Hodges

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