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the Pattycakes

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Alice Gilmartin
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Alice Gilmartin I love listening, dancing and relishing this band's sound for their unique versions of the songs many of us heard when we were children- the old songs that were heard all across this land. I love their harmonies and rhythms, their honest straight from the heart and lilting sounds. And, of course, I enjoy their song choices-songs that can bring us all back together again!
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I saw Jesus on the cross on a hill called Calvary “Do you hate mankind for what they done to you?” He said, “Talk of love not hate, things to do – it’s getting late. I’ve so little time and I’m only passing through.” Passing through, passing through. Sometimes happy, sometimes blue, glad that I ran into you. Tell the people that you saw me passing through. I saw Adam leave the Garden with an apple in his hand, I said “Now you’re out, what are you going to do?” “Plant some crops and pray for rain, maybe raise a little cane. I’m an orphan now, and I’m only passing through.” Passing through, passing through. Sometimes happy, sometimes blue, glad that I ran into you. Tell the people that you saw me passing through. I was with Washington at Valley Forge, shivering in the snow. I said, “How come men suffer like they do?” “Men will suffer, men will fight, even die for what is right even though they know they’re only passing through” Passing through, passing through. Sometimes happy, sometimes blue, glad that I ran into you. Tell the people that you saw me passing through. I was with Franklin Roosevelt’s side on the night before he died. He said, “One world must come out of World War Two” (ah, the fool) “Yankee, Russian, white or tan,” he said, “A man is still a man. We’re all on one road, and we’re only passing through.” Passing through, passing through. Sometimes happy, sometimes blue, glad that I ran into you. Tell the people that you saw me passing through.
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We are trav'ling in the footsteps Of those who've gone before, And we'll all be reunited, On a new and sunlit shore, Oh, when the saints go marching in Oh, when the saints go marching in I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in And when the sun refuse to shine And when the sun refuse to shine I want to be in that number When the sun refuse to shine And when the moon turns red with blood And when the moon turns red with blood I want to be in that number When the moon turns red with blood Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call I want to be in that number When the trumpet sounds its call Some say this world of trouble, Is the only one we need, But I'm waiting for that morning, When the new world is revealed. Oh When the new world is revealed Oh When the new world is revealed I want to be in that number When the new world is revealed Oh, when the saints go marching in Oh, when the saints go marching in I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in
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Broken windows and empty hallways A pale dead moon in the sky streaked with gray Human kindness is overflowing And I think it's going to rain today Scarecrows dressed in the latest styles With frozen smiles to chase love away Human kindness is overflowing And I think it's going to rain today Lonely, lonely Tin can at my feet Think I'll kick it down the street That's the way to treat a friend Bright before me the signs implore me To help the needy and show them the way Human kindness is overflowing And I think it's going to rain today
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Velvet I can wish you for the collar of your coat and fortune smiling all along your way but more I cannot wish you than to wish you find your love your own true love this day Mansions I can wish you seven footmen all in red and calling cards upon a silver tray but more I cannot wish you than to wish you find your love your own true love this day Standing there gazing at you full of the bloom of youth standing there gazing at you with a sheeps' eye and a lickerish tooth Music I can wish you merry music while you're young and wisdom when your hair has turned to gray but more I cannot wish you than to wish you find your love your own true love this day With a sheeps' eye and a lickerish tooth and the strong arms to carry you away
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Tho' all things perish from under the sky, Music and joy shall live, music and joy shall live, music and joy shall live, never to die. Repeat

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In the late 1940s, Dick Blakeslee, then a student at the University of Chicago, wrote Passing Through, an exceedingly simple, hopeful and politically committed song. The lyrics breathed the heady atmosphere of political liberalism and optimism that followed Allied victory in World War II and preceded the McCarthy era and Cold War freeze. In 1948, a hundred flowers bloomed and Passing Through epitomized this.

All tracks are public domain, except I Think It's Going to Rain Today by Randy Newman and More I Cannot Wish You by Frank Loesser, and were recorded during a live studio session in Highland Park, 2013.

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released May 29, 2013

Vocals: the Pattycakes (Jennifer Leonhardt & Juliet Tondowski)
Guitar: Dave Bow
Banjo, guitars & ukelele: Aaron Gilmartin

Cover photography & art by Jennifer Leonhardt

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