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As I Thought On What I Done

Remorse is an awfully thorough emotion - it blots out just about everything else when it's upon you.

The spooky songs all come at night...this one came at two in the morning. I spent a lot of time delving into the old ballad music of the mountains back when I was younger and every once in a while I dip into the well and pull a whole lot of it back out.

The third verse is a direct borrowing of a common ballad verse. One version of it occurs in one of my favorite recordings - Shortbuckle Roark and Family's "I Truly Understand That You Love Another Man".

The moon hung low in the evening sky
The clouds gathered one by one
I could not feel my own footsteps
As I thought on what I done

My head hung low as the bottom ground
My throat was dry as bone
I felt the world fall round my feet
As I thought on what I done

I wished to the Lord I never been born
Or died when I was young
I wished I never laid eyes on you
As I thought on what on what I done

There's no recourse there's no repose
No means to right my wrongs
No hope I've found before me now
As I thought on what I done

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