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Willy Moore's Ball​/​Emmett's Hedgehog​/​Lilting Banshee

from Rust Belt Ballads by Emmett Doyle

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Willy Moore is an old friend of mine from college who, in the first years many of us were living in the Cities as recent graduates, held an absolute banger of a Halloween party near the Witch's Hat over Northeast that inspired a jam session, a 30-strong group sing of "The Edmund Fitzgerald", and this song to commemorate it all. The jigs we added so that Mattie and I could pick up jamming where we left off on Halloween of 2014.

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A D A E
The gentry's assembled, their hands all a-tremble
A F#m
with bottles delightful and strange
A D A
the Kings of the Falls, the Queens of Saint Paul
A E
and the dukes of the iron ore range
A D A E
and the minstrels and bards from the taconite yards
A F#m
and the Hills make a whiskey voiced choir
A D A
while your host Willy Moore sets the house on a roar
A E A
making craic cracking jokes 'round the fire

The girls are dancing, the boys are advancing,
and trying their courage to stir
and the guests tell the news over free flowing booze
'til their memory's naught but a blur
and we fight through the haze and think back on old days
and remember dear friends who tonight
are scattered like seeds on the currents and breezes
or like wild geese put to flight

We there in the throng sang our sorrows and songs
and like fish parched for water we drank
and what then occurred I know not a word
for my memory's coming up blank
this city's temptations and fiendish libations
are apt to make any man crawl
but the grandest of feature's a drop of the creature
and a night down at Willy Moore's ball

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from Rust Belt Ballads, released September 1, 2023
Fiddle: Mattie Ernst
Vocals, Bouzouki, Bodhran, Songwriting: Emmett Doyle
Host of the Party: Will Moore

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Emmett Doyle Minneapolis, Minnesota

Emmett is a working class rebel musician- a union carpenter, former river deckhand, raised on a farm in central Minnesota. With American country and blues and Irish traditional roots, he keeps the Long Memory going while singing about today's struggles. His work is rooted in social movements he's an active part of, from labor to defending the earth to fighting hate. ... more

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