Gillian Welch's "Orphan Girl" Performed by Crooked Still
The great Gillian Welch, herself an adopted daughter, who Wikipedia tells us "attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she majored in songwriting," penned these incredibly moving lyrics:
- I am a orphan on God's highway
but I'll share my troubles
if you go my way
I have no mother, no father, no sister, no brother
I am an orphan girl
I have had friendships pure and golden
but the ties of kinship
I have not known them
I know no mother, no father, no sister, no brother
I am an orphan girl
But when He calls me I will be able
to meet my family at God's table
I'll meet my mother, my father, my sister, my brother
no more an orphan girl
So Blessed Savior make me willing
and walk beside me until I'm with them
be my mother, be my father, be my sister, be my brother
no more an orphan girl
Labels: America the Beautiful, Family, Folk Music, Separated Brethren, The Catholic Faith

3 Comments:
Her fellow Berklee student Annie Clark is also impressive. Though she majored in guitar.
Cruel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTaVFQ4XJTg
Surgeon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGIbR5jdA58
Many thanks!
Her style reminds me a lot of King Crimson guitarist and Robert Fripp sidekick Adrian Belew, masterful technique combined with inventive technical distortion (those are NOT keyboards you hear, that's guitar, damn good guitar) but more melodic, and a better songwriter than Belew
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