Name: Don't Get Dead
Duration: P00H03M07S
Description: Don’t Get Dead: The thesis of our little project. A poet friend of mine who lives in Pittsburgh used to sign off her emails with the words, “Don’t get dead.” We liked it so much, we borrowed it, and started using it to end our weekly facetime band meetings. What’s more human than singing in a boneyard? Or more stubborn than hope …

Don't Get Dead

from Don't Get Dead: Pandemic Folk Songs by the Cornelius Eady Trio by Cornelius Eady Trio

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Don’t Get Dead: The thesis of our little project. A poet friend of mine who lives in Pittsburgh used to sign off her emails with the words, “Don’t get dead.” We liked it so much, we borrowed it, and started using it to end our weekly facetime band meetings. What’s more human than singing in a boneyard? Or more stubborn than hope …

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Words and Music: Cornelius Eady

On the day we beat the devil
Gonna pull on my dancing shoes
Gonna lift my soul from its hiding place
Gonna vacate my blues

One day the sun is gonna shine
Gonna push this sad man outta my mind
We’ll toss the feathers on top of our dread
Oh, darling, don’t get dead

On the day we beat the devil
Oh, put on your party dress
Ribbons and bows and bells on your toes
We’ll settle for nothing less

One day the sun is gonna shine
Gonna push this sad world outta our minds
Throw a parade on the bones of our dread
Oh, darling, don’t get dead

On the day the devil gets shown the door
We’ll rosin up the bow
On the other side of this misery
Is a place that he can’t go.

One day the sun’s gotta shine
Gonna shove this cruel world outta my mind
Funky Chicken on the bones of our dread
Oh, darling, don’t get dead.

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from Don't Get Dead: Pandemic Folk Songs by the Cornelius Eady Trio, released November 11, 2021

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Founded in 1974 in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, June Appal Recordings is the non-profit record label of Appalshop. It was established to record and distribute the music and stories of accomplished central Appalachian artists.

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