Sing Me Back Home

from Dancing Backwards by Mark Thorburn

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Strictly limited edition (250 copies), hand numbered and signed by Mark Thorburn . These are the last 45 copies in existence and it is highly unlikely there will ever be another pressing. This is the debut album by Mark Thorburn who went on to form The Cosmic Trip Advisors. Three songs from this album appeared on Wrong again, Albert... and a couple more will most likely appear in a different form on future Cosmic LP's - This is where it all began. Grab a teeny tiny piece of history if you please.

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This is my take on the Merle Haggard classic. I love the lyrics and melody of this song and wanted to try slowing it right down with just a piano and a gospel choir on the chorus. Unfortunately I didn't have a gospel choir to hand, so I recorded myself around 30 times instead. Needs must, n'all that.

I used an old Keith Richards bootleg as the inspiration for my version.

lyrics

The warden lead the prisoner down the hallway to his doom
I stood up to say goodbye like all the rest
And I heard him, tell the Warden, just before he reached my cell
Let my guitar playing friend do my request

Let him sing me back home
With a song I used to hear
Make my old memories come alive
Take me away, and turn back the years
Sing me back home, before I die

I recall, last Sunday morning, a choir from cross the street
Came to sing a few old gospel songs
And I heard him tell the singers
There's a song my Mama sang
Won't you sing it once before I move along

Won't you sing me back home
With a song I used to hear
Make my old memories come alive
Take me away, and turn back the years
Sing me back home, before I die

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from Dancing Backwards, released August 21, 2014
Music & Lyrics: Merle Haggard
Lead Vocal: Mark Thorburn
Gospel Choir: Lots of Mark Thorburn
Piano: Dougie Thomson

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Mark Thorburn Edinburgh, UK

Mark Thorburn has been playing the "low-slung-guitar-hero" in his head for longer than he cares to remember

This is his debut album.

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