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Leading Creek

by David Wade Evans

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This original song was a request from my Dad to write a song about his Grandma (my Great Grandma.)

My Dad said that when he was driving around in West Virginia with his Grandma and she was having a "senior moment" she'd always say, "Oh me oh my, oh my oh me, my mind's way down on Leading Creek." Leading Creek runs near Elkins, West Virginia.

My Dad asked that I use that as a lyric in a song and so I did. I figure if I ever start going senile I'd much rather picture that process as being down on some pleasant creek somewhere rather than the alternatives it could represent. This song is about life, getting older, and losing your mind.

lyrics

Where have I gone?
How have I lived?
What have I done?
Whom have I loved?
Oh me oh my.

Did I leave them?
Did they leave me?
Did I wait long beneath that willow tree?

CHORUS:
Oh me oh my
oh my oh me,
my mind's way down on Leading Creek.
Oh me oh my.
Oh me oh my
oh my oh me,
my mind's way down on Leading Creek.

For pity's sake,
what have I gained?
For pity's sake,
what have I lost?
Oh me oh my.

When I pass through
what shall I do
when I awake
to find my love is gone?

CHORUS

Here's something borrowed,
something new,
something shiny,
but I feel blue.
Oh me oh my.

This creek will wind.
These hands will shake.
All thoughts erode.
These banks, well they break.

CHORUS

credits

released November 16, 2011
David Wade Evans - lyrics, music, banjo, and vocals.

This song is for my Dad and my Great Grandma.

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David Wade Evans Somerville, Massachusetts

David Wade Evans is currently based out of Somerville, MA and has been playing music for 20+ years. He has been playing the 5-string banjo for about 7 years or so and is totally in love with it!

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