Name: If Ever I See You Again by pickingandstrumming
Duration: 3 min 27 s
Description: This is an Ode to the family and friends that we carry in our hearts wherever we go, and the deep longing to be reunited once again. I dedicate this song to the loved ones I've lost in recent memory...My abuelas Evangelina Macias and Virgina Munoz, Anna Land and my uncles Esteban Macias and Lorenzo Munoz...I miss you.

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This is an Ode to the family and friends that we carry in our hearts wherever we go, and the deep longing to be reunited once again. I dedicate this song to the loved ones I've lost in recent memory...My abuelas Evangelina Macias and Virgina Munoz, Anna Land and my uncles Esteban Macias and Lorenzo Munoz...I miss you.

If Ever I See You Again

A song submitted to the New Mexico Music Awards Albuquerque Songwriting competition. 

How Do You Spell Albuquerque?

Happiness is like a bird with twenty wings
Try to catch him as he flies
Happiness is like a bird that only sings
When his head is in the skies

Like the wholly blanket stars forever living
Never dim upon his eyes
Happiness, the blind abandoned child of grieving
Tries to find a better sight

You can try to make him walk beside you
You can say the door is open wide
If you grab at him, woe betide you,
I know because I've tried

Like a butterfly upon an April morning
Very quickly taking fright
Happiness is come and gone without a warning
Jack-O-Lantern in the night

I will follow him across the meadow
I will follow him across the hill
And if I can catch him I will try to bring you
Why yes, happiness

If I can catch him I will try to bring you
All my love and happiness

"Happiness" - Anna Carmela (originally By Molly Drake)

Original song written and arranged by Mary Gaughan and Kaitlin Morrill. 
Recorded by Jeremy Ruple.

Searching (Original)

We made a mess of things
Trampling down seedlings
Underneath the canopy
Underneath the heart of things
The roots will never die in Savanna 

We don't want to fade away
We have no place to go
This is where we call home
In Savanna 

Inheritance to the breeze
As far as the eye can see
Underneath the canopy
Underneath the heart of things
The roots will never die in Savanna 

We'll sit and ponder life
How we got this far and why
We don't want to fade away 
We have no place to go
This is where we go home
In Savanna

This is where we call home
In Savanna
Living out our last days
In Savanna 
We don't want to fade away 
In Savanna 
This is where we call home 
In Savanna

Savanna

My home is a faraway land
Love me anyway you can
Love me anyway you can

My hope is a runaway man
Help me anyway you can
Help me anyway you can

I could cross a hundred seas
If you choose to believe 
I would sink a thousand fleets
If it meant you'd fall in love with me

I can be a better man
I can be a better man

Only God knows 
Only God knows
How hard I try

Better Man

A special praise should be reserved for Morkov’s arrangement of Carnival of Venice.  This published composition does not specify the author, but I grew up listening to Gidon Kremer’s rendition and thinking of it as a setting by Heinrich Ernst (1812-1865), a Moravian–Jewish violinist.  However, once you start trying to disentangle the knot of whether Ernst wrote and subsequently published these variations himself or whether he overheard his grand idol Nicola Paganini practicing or performing it first –– to hell with that, you would rather focus on what Morkov did with these variations.  And indeed Morkov did a lot:  the technique to perform these acrobatic pieces on any sort of guitar needs to be stunning.  Is it even possible that someone at one of his soirees could play such things?

Morkov Carnival Of Venice

Vox: Anna Carmela
Bass: Zach Latham
Guitar: @agent_cae
Production/Engineer: Geoff Miller & Walker Mitchell
Mixed by Anna Carmela

White Rabbit (Cover)

"Singing River”
Tim Worley

I remember as a boy how I heard your melody
In the hills of Alabama by that mighty Tennessee
It's the lyric of your waters, it's the rustling of the pines
And though my feet may ramble, still you call me home tonight

Chorus
You're my music, you're my rhythm
Wherever I may roam
So let your singing river sing me all the way home

You're calling in the springtime when the streams are all in flood
And my tears roll down like crimson through that Alabama mud
That lonely yellowhammer, he is tapping like a drum
He's beating with the music of that river that I love

Chorus

Some folks wade the Jordan, some swim the Rio Grande
Looking for redemption in some promised land
But when I cross on over along my pilgrim way
It'll be that Tennessee River that brings me home to stay

Chorus

If Ever I See You Again

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