STEPHEN HARDY PALMER

Title cut from the EP 'Bye & Bye'. Original, down home folk song from Stephen Hardy Palmer with mandolin virtuoso Corey Ticknor. The new EP can be downloaded from stevepalmermusic.bandcamp.com Thank you for listening and please 'subscribe'! www.spmusic.ca BYE & BYE (S.H.Palmer) She don’t like it when it’s cloudy She says clouds can turn to rain Ah but when the sky turns sunny Then I’ll see her smile again First the clouds and then the rain Then I know she’ll smile again Very soon we’ll be together She’ll come to me -Bye and Bye She’s got a brand new way of flying Man your feet don’t touch the ground Take you all the way to China Hold on tight and don’t look down Lift you up and take you high Up into the clear blue sky You’ll be wishin’ you could stay forever Up there in the bye and bye By and By there’ll come a time When her heart will beat with mine Oh how that sun will shine She’ll come to me -Bye and Bye Now the geese may fly off for the winter They might come back in the spring Ah but when the cold is bitter Then I’ll need her home again Sometimes on the darkest night I can hear her lullaby Then I know we’ll be together She’ll come to me -Bye and Bye By and By there’ll come a day When I know her heart will stay Ah those clouds, they’ll roll away Come tomorrow, come what may Bye and Bye her heart will stay

A THOUSAND MILES OR MORE original folk by Stephen Hardy Palmer acoustic guitar and vocal with Ethan Mitchell on cello. From the EP 'BYE & BYE' stevepalmermusic.bandcamp.com More info at www.spmusic.ca A Thousand Miles Or More Can you hear the wind come? It's calling at your door It comes from very far away A thousand miles or more... Will it bring you sweet dreams? Will it ease your fears? Will it bring a true love To see you through the years? (oooh...) My love she was a rainbow She shone on all around She coloured up the new sky When the storm was done So I took me a ladder And I climbed the highest rung I picked me a sweetheart And claimed her for my own (oooh...) Claimed her for my own Claimed her for my own I picked me a sweetheart Claimed her for my own Can you taste the water? It's cool and it's clean It comes on down the mountain To this stubborn stream My life is like that river Every day's a stone Some I only cast away Some I'd want to hold (oooh...) A thousand miles or more A thousand miles or more You can hear the wind come A thousand miles or more (S H Palmer 2022)

Beautiful old Appalachian Ballad. Duet vocal with Stephen H Palmer and Cara Luft, Corey Ticknor on mandolin. Recorded in Winnipeg at Paintbox Studio, Lloyd Peterson engineer. Thanks for listening -please 'LIKE, SHARE, & SUBSCRIBE'. This song can be downloaded at https://stevepalmermusic.bandcamp.com/ WAYFARING STRANGER (Traditional, new arrangement by Stephen Hardy Palmer) I am a poor wayfaring stranger Traveling through this wearisome land And there’s no sickness, no toil or danger In that bright land to where I’m bound Going there to see my Father Going there no more to roam I’m only going over Jordan Going there to my new home I know dark clouds, they’ll gather o’er me I know the way is rough and steep But beauteous fields lie just before me Where God’s redeemed their vigils keep Going there to see my Mother She said she’d meet me when I come I’m only going over Jordan Going there to my new home Going there to meet my Savior Going there no more to roam I’m only going over Jordan Going there to my new home

PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND HIT LIKE! Cara Luft provides beautiful Clawhammer Banjo accompaniment to a late night hotel story. SOUTHERN ANGEL is part of my new EP 'BYE & BYE'. Download available from https://stevepalmermusic.bandcamp.com/ Thank you for listening! www.spmusic.ca SOUTHERN ANGEL (Original song by Stephen Hardy Palmer) Southern Angel she don’t sing But she can make that banjo ring High and Lonesome Pick it sad and play it sweet She can make that banjo weep High and Lonesome These hotel walls are cheap But that don’t bother me I don’t need no sleep When ev’ry note’s in harmony Pick it sad and play it sweet She can play the Blues for me High and Lonesome Wishin’ I could be there too Pick away the whole night thru Heartbroke and lovesick blues 3 chords and there’s the truth Pick it sad and play it sweet She can make that banjo weep High and Lonesome