Will The Circle Be Broken

This song was taught to me by an elderly lady who learned it from

her mother when she was a child in the foothils of Virginia and

North Carolina. It is played slowly, not fast like a lot of bluegrass

artists like to play it. I do play a sped-up instrumental at the end

though...

TITLE: Will The Circle Be Unbroken (as transcribed from Leona Parsons)

ARTIST: FOLK

I was standin, by my window

one cold and rainy day

When I saw that, hearse come rollin

for to take my mama away

Will the circle be unbroken

by and by lord by and by

There's a better home a waitin

in the sky lord in the sky

And I followed close behind her

trying to hold up and be brave

but I could not hide my sorrow

when they laid her in that cold cold grave

Then we went home our home was lonely

for our mother she was gone

and we felt her spirit in every room

as through the house we did roam

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Walt Dabell KD3GS (302)645-4225 walt@diusys.cms.udel.edu

U of Delaware / College of Marine Studies

700 Pilottown Rd. Lewes, DE 19958