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Frederick Squire Sings Shenandoah and Other Popular Hits

by Frederick Squire (2011)

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Shenandoah 02:24
Shenandoah Shenandoah, I long to hear you Away you rolling river Shenandoah, I long to hear you Away I'm bound away across the wide Missouri Shenandoah, I love your daughter Away you rolling river I'll take her across those roaring waters Away I'm bound away across the wide Missouri Shenandoah, I'm bound to leave you Away you roaring river Shenandoah, I'll not deceive you Away I'm bound away across the wide Missouri
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Peaceful Valley I had a dream about a peaceful valley Where the grass grows long and tall Bury me in the peaceful valley Bury me beneath the sun In the dream about the peaceful valley You were standing watching over me Sad eyes down you stared my ground Lit from above by the sun So lie with me in the peaceful valley Where the grass grows long and tall Lie with me in the peaceful valley Lie with me beneath the sun
3.
The Human Race Can Be A Very Nasty Animal Keep a place inside your heart that's called forgiveness For the people who no one else will forgive Let a stream of goodness flow right through you No one even needs to know that it's there The human race can be a very nasty animal And the human race can be a unified thing So keep a place inside yourself that's called forgiveness For the people who no one else will forgive
4.
Every Dollar Bill Could Kill Me Every night I will try to fight a perfect stranger So don't give me no love but mostly don't give me no money Because every dollar bill could kill me Every dollar bill could kill me If it ain't watered down If it ain't watered down It's a God given design to always seem to find some kind of trouble Always seeking revenge not for me but for the devil Every thought I have is not my own Every step I take takes me further from home Further away Further away So I'll stay in tonight and I'll try to make right and get rid of all the evil I'll look up instead of feeling bad about the past Because every sinking ship has the chance for survival To lie there in a dreamy sea of blue Til it falls asleep Til it falls asleep
5.
All Things Past Serve To Guide You On Your Way Each mistake you make when you are young will be forgiven Somebody's watching, somebody's watching It may be your father, it may be your mother Somebody's watching over you So take a deep breath and try to relax Hope is a real thing It's not the best but it will do for now As you get old the price will grow for all of your transgressions Somebody's waiting, somebody's waiting It could be a lover, it could be a stranger Somebody's waiting for you
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There Is A Place That I Can Go So I let me on down All my hopes and all my dreams I've been lost and I've been found on the city streets So if life is but a joke One that you should never tell Oh you think you're in heaven buddy But you're living in hell There's a place that I can go Only one there is me And as long as I know I'll never let it be So I let me on down All my hopes and all my dreams I've been lost and I've been found on the city streets
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Lucky Number Seven I miss the sunshine I miss a grey cloud too Nothing seems right here without her Nothing feels right here without her She was my bride dear So young and pretty like the sky But winter was hard here So she'll laugh no more Winter was hard here So she'll cry no more We witnessed life here A beautiful boy so soft and fine I do not want him She sobbed as he cried How could you not love such a beautiful child He is my true love's The child of another man My one love's dead now Been sent off to hang The boy's a reflection of love that has passed She would not touch him She could not bear the sight My back was turned when she poisoned her cup She drank it down so she'd never wake up He has no food here Cold bitter wind blows through the field I tried to keep him warm through the night I could not keep him alive through the night I laid him with her They formed a picture of a birth But images serve man a plate of deceit As what was once life has been taken from me i am a ghost now no longer feeling of this world But sadness and love for my wife of the sky Sadness and love for the abandoned child
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We Live Beyond Sometimes things in life are glory Sometimes things in life are hard But when it comes time for leaving We live beyond So there might not be a heaven Or some kind of burning hell But the place we could be going We may know so well So if life was made for living Fill it with good memories Because the place we could be going Is where we live and breathe
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"An artist who can entertain effectively using only the bare minimum, Squire presents his songs in such a simple format that you can be certain he's not hiding behind technology or overdubs. He's got a great voice and a simple direct style of playing guitar...both of which combine in incredibly effective ways." - BABYSUE

"Every once and a while, we come upon something that reminds us of death, and we return to living with meaning and purpose." - DUSTED

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released May 24, 2011

'Shenandoah' is a traditional folk ballad of obscure origins. Echoing this classic narrative form, Squire leads the listener through forgotten moral territory with a set of exceptionally written songs primarily about forgiveness. In order to properly convey the deceivingly complex nature of this basic emotional theme, Squire sat in one chair and, using two microphones, recorded three instruments - vocals, guitar, and pump organ.

All songs written by Frederick Squire except the traditional Shenandoah
Performed and recorded by Frederick Squire in Sackville, NB
Mastered by Rick White
Photography and layout by Paul Henderson
Format: LP/CD/digital

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