This is my 3rd release for The Jean Ritchie Experience, a project of discovery and a series of recordings that will over time feature many musicians. To get this project off the ground for awareness and fundraising, I’m releasing 4 singles this year, after which I'll carry this project on in even more elaborate ways, so don’t miss that. Although I’m based in Salt Lake City, when I’m not on the road performing, I try to spend as much time as possible in Harpers Ferry, WV, where I look after my elderly mother. While doing so, I've sought the camaraderie of musicians in the West Virginia region to help me with these first singles. This song, previously recorded by many others, is sometimes known under the title of Marnie. I've learned it from older recordings while also referring to the music notation and lyrics that can be found in Jean’s songbook, Celebration of Life. The song fits into a traditional folk song format and if one didn’t know its origin, it could easily be mistaken for a traditional song. It’s common for Jean’s original songs to be indistinguishable from Traditional folk songs, which is one of the many fascinating aspects and charms of her compositions. Fitting into the categories of seafaring and emigration stories, it’s an optimistic invitation to join someone for a new life in a new homeland. This is a song I've sung in various formats over the years, but have arranged it solely for this project with the help of singers Paul Hammerton, Morgan Morrison, and Stephanie Thompson. I included my ukulele on the track, which was made in Hawaii. The cover art includes a painting I created for this song. 
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CREDITS
Lyrics and Music Copyright Jean Ritchie, Geordie Music Publishing
Kate MacLeod - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, ukulele
Harmony Vocals - Paul Hammerton, Morgan Morrison, and Stephanie Thompson
Produced by Kate MacLeod 
Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by Dustin DeLage, Cabin Studios, Leesburg, VA
Cover Painting and Graphic Design by Kate MacLeod

LYRICS
Bright is the morning and brisk is the weather
Steady the wind o’er the sweet singing sea
Proudly the tall ship a’rides in the harbor
Come fare away with me

CHORUS
Marnie, come fare away
Come fare away with me
There’s an island of dreams
Over the rolling sea

Sails at the ready, she’s bound for Newfoundland
Hasten my darling and do not delay
Trees tall and green there and fish by the millions
Come fare away with me

Leave your belongings for things do but bind us
Hemmed in the life here, it won’t do for me
Fretting and troubles, we’ll leave them behind us
There is a land that’s free

Lace on your stout shoes of good Highland leather
Bring your warm shawl and a cup for the tea
There’ll be a new life, we’ll build it together
Come fare away with me

Come Fare Away With Me - The Jean Ritchie Experience

Hosted by Lara Jones, tonight's RadioActive show featured poetry, protest songs and social justice with Poets in the Nuclear West. Featured: poets and poetry lovers Ken Sanders, Michael Mclane, Trish Hopkinson and Bonnie Shiffler-Olsen, and Debbie Higham Wood; filmmakers Tim Skousen and Tyler Bastian on their documentary Downwinders; a few more science facts from 5th graders at St. John’s Elementary; and live music from Kate MacLeod.

RadioActive April 17, 2017

Performed 'live' on KRCL's Radioactive, April 17, 2017 
You Can't Take the Bullet Back
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The lyrics to this song are posted below. 

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LYRICS
As you stare down the barrel with your experienced aim
One finger on the trigger for a bullet
With a life at the mercy of your finger tips
Will you pause for a second while you think about this

CHORUS
Because) 
You can't take the bullet back once you pull the trigger
You can't take the bullet back once you pull the trigger
No you can't

As you ready you words with your experienced claims
With a mind so sure that someone else is to blame
With a heart at the mercy of your tender lips
Could you hold your tongue while you think about this (the risk)
Because...
CHORUS 

For the mercy of unfortunate fire
Someone could hope that the bullet will miss
And at the mercy of the call of the wild
To what degree do we all live a life like this

I'm trying to say that I'm tired of the violence 
I'm tried of people being hard or silenced
I'm tired of being afraid
And brace the world for what could be delivered

CHORUS

Copyright 2016, Kate MacLeod, Courier Music, ASCAP

Kate MacLeod - You Can't Take the Bullet Back (Once You Pull the Trigger)

This is a sample of my upcoming recording, my first full-length violin/fiddle instrumental recording, featuring original music inspired by landscape and nature. This is called Maxfield Parrish Sky, inspired by the effervescent and vibrant New England skies that were captured in many of Maxfield Parrish's paintings. The recording will be available in October, 2017. Musicians: Kate MacLeod/Fiddles, James Scott/Guitar, Christopher Layer/Whistle, Skip Gorman/Mandolin
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Come Fare Away With Me - The Jean Ritchie Experience

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