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Hickory

from Hickory by Andy Bunn

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about

My mother said her grandmother told of an aged relative she grew up with who was the illegitimate daughter of a Civil War deserter. I researched the family’s roots in North Carolina’s Catawba County and couldn’t find any firm evidence of this, so I made up a story.

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If I could do it all again
I hope I wouldn’t go
I’d tell that handsome dark-haired man
“Thank you the answer’s no”

Foolish me, I had dreamed I’d
Be a soldier’s bride
And I blushed when he asked me to
Lay down by his side

His eyes were bright and shining
He was strong like an oak tree
He was the very first man I’d known
Not a boy from Hickory

Oh me oh my oh
What will become of me?
Oh dear when I die oh
Take me back to Hickory

He confessed in the dark that night
He was absent without leave
He’d slipped away at Fredericksburg
On a dark and quiet eve

He laid his head upon my breast
Told me he was afraid
Of the fighting, fever, & cold
Of how he’d run away

He said, “Follow me to Asheville
We’ll cross west through Tennessee
Ride all the way to Kansas
Leave behind your Hickory”

Oh me oh my oh
What will become of me?
Oh dear when I die oh
Take me back to Hickory

I could have have stopped right there
Bid him fare thee well
But I was young and I let him
Damn us both to hell

We didn’t make the mountains, no
They stopped us on the road
Hanged him for a traitor and left me
Far away from home

With a baby in my womb
And far from my family
Today I curse that coward’s name
Take me back, Hickory

Oh me oh my oh
What will become of me?
Oh dear when I die oh
Take me back to Hickory

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from Hickory, released February 10, 2022

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Andy Bunn Bellingham, Washington

Andy Bunn is a songwriter living in Bellingham WA who writes character-focused songs.

Some of the stories in the songs stick mostly to the facts and some are tall tales. The characters in the stories feel real to him and that’s enough.

In addition to solo stuff, he plays bluegrass in the High Mountain String Band. ... more

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