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The language is a little old-fashioned, but this is new song. It seems right that way. Have a listen if you love someone.

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David Kilpatrick

Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.

I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #9

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

David Kilpatrick

Rights

David Kilpatrick April 2003

Uploaded

November 24, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.3 MB • 128 kbps • 3:37

Story behind the song

I found these lyrics scrawled on two pages of the fridge magnet notepad a few months after writing them down. I could still remember the tune, which is based on an old Scottish melody. I have no idea why I didn't record them. There was a fourth verse started but crossed out, so I was probably trying to finish the song. Reading it again, I felt it was complete. So here it is. The guitar is my Lowden O-12 in open D tuning with Newtone strings, recorded acoustically - one microphone for voice, one for guitar.

Lyrics

When I was young and in that dawning
I saw you white as the lily blooms
Beneath the shading tree
Then would I have given you that morning
All of my day for just one hour with thee

As I grew older in the summer
Seeing you ride so fair
Oer the ferny lea
Then would I gladly have forsaken
One year of life for just a day with thee

Now as the Autumn gilds the sunset
Slow the leaves fall from
The shading tree
I would offer you my last days
If I could spend just one more hour with thee

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