Amy H. Sturgis's Blog, page 27
October 25, 2022
Halloween 2022: Day 25
Song: “Callie Calling”
Quote:
I hear my Callie callin’, callin’ every night.
She stirs around each evenin’, but never in the light.
Haunts me and she taunts me and fills my heart with fright.
I hear my Callie callin’, callin’ every night.
Sometimes she whispers, other times she screams.
It’s hard to tell the difference, if she’s real or in my dreams.
She’s the creakin’ in the ceilin’, the knock upon the door,
The wind outside the window, and the footsteps on the floor.
October 24, 2022
Halloween 2022: Day 24
Song: “Willie Moore”
Quote:
She threw herself in Willie Moore’s arms,
As oft time had done before,
But little did he think when they parted that night
Sweet Anna he would see no more.
It was about the tenth of May,
The time I remember well,
That very same night her body disappeared
In a way that no one could tell.
October 23, 2022
Halloween 2022: Day 23
Song: “Katie Dear”
Quote:
Then he picked up this golden dagger,
And stove it through his troubled heart,
Saying, “Goodbye, Katie, goodbye darling. The time has come for us to part.”
There are many versions of this song. Read more here.
October 22, 2022
Halloween 2022: Day 22
Song: “The Lantern”
Quote:
In dark misty hills of Carolina,
Way back where the mountain laurel grows,
On cool October nights, with a lantern shining bright,
There’s something out there walking through the darkness all alone,
Creeping through the darkness all alone.
Read the complete lyrics.
October 21, 2022
Halloween 2022: Day 21
Song: “Young Charlotte”
Quote:
They reached the door, and Charles sprang out and held his hand to her.
“Why sit you like a monument, have you no power to stir?”
He called her once, he called her twice; she answered not a word.
He asked her for her hand again, and yet she never stirred.
There are many variations of this song. Read more here.
October 20, 2022
Halloween 2022: Day 20
Song: “Sad Wind Sighs”
Quote:
Now the sad wind sighs in the lonesome graveyard.
The cold rain falls, and the trees bow down.
I can hear my darlin’ softly callin’,
But she’s asleep in the cold cold ground.
October 19, 2022
Halloween 2022: Day 19
Song: “Matty Groves”
Quote:
So Matty struck the very first blow, and he hurt Lord Orland sore.
Lord Orland struck the very next blow, and Matty struck no more.
And then Lord Orland took his wife, and he sat her on his knee,
Saying, “Who do you like the best of us, Matty Groves or me?”
And then up spoke his own dear wife, never heard to speak so free,
“I’d rather a kiss from dead Matty’s lips than you or your finery.”
Lord Orland he jumped up and loudly he did bawl,
He struck his wife right through the heart and pinned her against the wall.
“A grave, a grave,” Lord Orland cried, “to put these lovers in,
But bury my lady at the top for she was of noble kin.”
October 18, 2022
Halloween 2022: Day 18
Song: “Blackadders Cove”
Quote:
And the rain it did pour and the wind it blew cold
As I dug her a grave in Blackadders Cove
Way back in the hills where nobody goes.
October 17, 2022
Halloween 2022: Day 17
Song: “Little Omie Wise”
Quote:
Little Omie, little Omie, I’ll tell you my mind:
My mind is to drown you and leave you behind.
October 16, 2022
Halloween 2022: Day 16
Song: “Banks of the Ohio”
Quote:
I held a knife against his breast
As into my arms he pressed.
He cried, “My love, don’t murder me!
I’m not prepared for eternity.”
Listen to the performance of Gangstagrass Feat. Alexa Dirks:
