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Once More With FeelingNur Ein XX
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Once More With Feeling
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Entry from Once More With Feeling in Nur Ein XX.

Call and Response with a guest vocalist that you've never collaborated with before

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My collaborators were 35-40 people, mostly over the age of 65. Getting them to sing the response lines in time and in tune was a challenge. Lots of work went into those little snippets of audio (captured on an old-as-hell Zoom H4n).

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Anyway, lyrics:

The first that I remember I worked the land
With spade and plough drawn by hand
A draft mule might have saved us, by breaking a few more rows
And maybe we’d a’ et him, when the winter got too cold

And you haul weigh-heigh
As best you can weigh-heigh
And as hunger stole my final breath
I hoped for better luck in the roulette

Raise your head once more with feeling
When it comes your turn again to sing

Then I was a sailor on a southern rig
I wondered at creation so wide and so big
And the terror and the beauty of nature all around
And I don’t hold it against her, that she run us aground

And you haul weigh-heigh
As best you can weigh-heigh
As the ocean stole my final breath
I hoped for better luck in the roulette

One day I wore fatigues, and stripes upon my sleeve
And set foreign men’s mothers and widows for to grieve
But amid the hell and chaos, I had friends by my side
I loved them all and saved them, or heaven knows I tried

And you haul weigh-heigh
As best you can weigh-heigh
As a bullet stole my final breath
I hoped for better luck in the roulette

And you haul weigh-heigh
As best you can weigh-heigh
And until my soul ascends the final step
I hoped for better luck in the roulette

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Pigfarmer Jr

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I love that pedal steel and think it’s the perfect touch here. This song hits my wheelhouse in a lot of ways. Challenge-wise, this seems more like a refrain of voices rather than a true call and response but it works very well for the song. I like the arrangement. I like both the melody and the lyric. And I like the dynamic contrast in the bridge. While firmly in the traditional/old timey camp it feels a little more modern than it could have.

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