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For PJ, AJP, & ET Hellard

This song was written by Si Kahn, but comes to me through the singing of the late, great Roy Bailey. I first came across Roy’s work through a bootlegged copy of The Writing on the Wall, the long running touring show he created with Tony Benn, featuring songs written by Leon Rosselson coupled with readings from the British radical tradition from the 12th century on.

On returning from Asia in 2005 I was able to see him live a few times, both with Tony and on his own. Besides his beautiful tenor voice, still ringing true way into his seventies and even eighties, I was struck by the fact that one of the greatest singers of our time made no bones about not writing songs of his own. The important thing was the ability to choose the songs that would communicate with this particular audience, right now, and to mean every word you say. This remains one of my greatest lessons to date, and continues to inspire me, whether I’m singing my own songs, or anyone else’s.

Si Kahn writes with such simplicity, and such a gift for the hook-line, it’s easy to see why so many great singers habitually open their live shows with his songs. This song is for my grandfather, who lived it and was a great planter of trees, and his great-grandchildren who live on.

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I remember the day my granddaddy died
Gone, gonna rise again
We dug his grave on the mountainside
Gone, gonna rise again
I was too young to understand
The way he felt about the land
But you could read his story in the lines on his hands
Gone, gonna rise again

Corn on the cob and apples in the bin
Gone, gonna rise again
Ham in the smokehouse, cotton in the gin
Gone, gonna rise again
Cows in the barn and pigs in the lot
You know, he never had a lot
But he worked like a devil for the little that he got
Gone, gonna rise again

Apple trees on the mountainside
Gone, gonna rise again
He planted the seeds before he died
Gone, gonna rise again
I guess he knew he never would see
The ripe, red fruit hanging from the tree
But he planted the seeds for his children and me
Gone, gonna rise again

High on a ridge above the farm
Gone, gonna rise again
I think of my people that have gone on
Gone, gonna rise again
Like trees that grows in the mountain ground
The storms of life have cut them down
But the new wood springs from the roots in the ground

Gone, gonna rise again
Gone, gonna rise again
Gone, gonna rise again

credits

from The Fruitful Fells, released July 6, 2021
Jez - Voice/Guitar
Nye Parsons - Double-bass
Piotr Jordan - Violin
Recorded by Mike West at Ninth Ward Pickin Parlor
Mastered by Nick Watson at Fluid Mastering

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Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra London, UK

Potent songs, silky double-bass, fiery fiddling and smoking harmonicas.

Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra play a rich mongrel mix of folk music, from jigs, reels and rebel ballads to tango, rhumba and reggae.

Virtuoso musicianship, conscious poetry; from dance tunes to rebel ballads, sweet love songs to powerful politics and passionate improvisation. ... more

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