Name: Soot or Stars
Duration: P00H05M30S
Description: for all my mothers: Anne Griffin first and foremost; Jeanne Johns; Penny; Connie; Alice and Amy; Ann and June; and all women of folk music; plus so many others. with love and respect, I carry on your work.

Soot or Stars

from Mothers & Daughters by Norma Jean Haynes (Norma Dream)

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for all my mothers: Anne Griffin first and foremost; Jeanne Johns; Penny; Connie; Alice and Amy; Ann and June; and all women of folk music; plus so many others. with love and respect, I carry on your work.

lyrics

This is just me, drinking oolong tea
In my mother's house
This is just me, as quiet as a mouse

The clocks are all ticking,
The candle, the wick
and the old kettle shouts

Then the ghosts come out

There was an old woman who swallowed her pride
Perhaps she died
From travelling so hard with those feelings inside

So tell your old story, reclaim your glory,
Old Grandmother Time

And watch while the ghosts go by

Sun will set, I come to the waters
I have not forgotten yet
You, mothers and daughters,
I was born onto your shoulders
And I will come back for you as I get older

I've seen many souls, from the sea to the shoals
To the back of the wood
And some have been bad, and some have been good

I know it's not right to call souls black or white
But I've known it so far:
Souls are just soot or stars

Refrain

This is just me at the edge of the sea
On the spine of a stone
Thinking of mothers and other souls that I've known

Souls howl like woods
Ripple like waters, or open like doors
But I've never seen one like yours

No, I've never seen one like yours

credits

from Mothers & Daughters, released June 4, 2021
Composed and performed by Norma Jean Haynes

Chris Haynes- Piano
Anand Nayak- Bass and Guitars

Engineered by Judy Elliot-Brown at the Institute for the Musical Arts, Goshen MA

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Norma Dream/Norma Jean Haynes
Northampton, Massachusetts

folk songs finely wrought, deeply rooted

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