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Muscadine Wine

from Shores of Mercy by Michael Kiel Cash

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lyrics

I’ve been to church honey, fulfilled my duties
I baked that bread well before dawn
Fishes and crosses I laid on them pastries
Reading Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

Martha my lady, she tended the vineyard
Made enough drink to last wintertime
On Sundays our goods were laid together
The Blood of our Lamb was Muscadine Wine

Oh I hear her singing
With a dress as white as snow
Dear Martha save that flask of oil
For I’ll be coming home

Days of nothing were filled with something
I fed her belly, she opened my heart
Laid my hands on her hips in the kitchen
Didn’t need no wine to get drunk on her love

She’d wash my feet and gain a mountain
I’d rest each moment in her skirt’s folds entwined
My prayers were kisses, her eyes the sermon
The pulpit our bed under the True Vine

Oh I hear her sighing
While deepening shadows fall
Dear Martha save that flask of oil
We’ll replay the sports of our love

Jesus was jealous, as were the angels
They bore her away to her eternal home
But they have the Garden, His Mercy and Beauty
Could have left a little light under the celestial dome

This side of Jordan the drink has gone sweet to sour
She was the water and I am the meek
The vines are sunburnt and grow no flowers
And I belly that blood six days a week

Oh I hear her singing
“There’s a Fountain flowing for the Soul...”
Dear Martha save that flask of oil,
I long to drink you once more

It shall pass, our wedding night is upon us
We’ll take our vows below the ground
And ascend up to heaven with your light a-shining
Our honeymoon will be in eternal sound

We’ll add to that vibration a chorus of elation
We’ll delude the eyes of a few angel spies
We’ll show Moses and Pharaoh a more perfect union
We’ll dance hand in hand under cerulean skies

To her I send my singing
While deepening shadows fall
Dear Martha save that flask of oil
Towards you I’m moving on

credits

from Shores of Mercy, released July 22, 2022
Michael Kiel Cash - vocals, guitar, double bass "Milena"
Jesse Hanson - vocals, fiddle
Jeff Taylor - accordion
Baron Collins-Hill - mandolin, bouzouki

Recorded and Engineered by Jim Prendergast
Additional recording by Jeff Taylor, Jesse Hanson, Baron Collins-Hill and Michael Kiel Cash
Mixed and Mastered by David Pettibone

Produced by Michael Kiel Cash and David Pettibone
Production Assistance by Jim Prendergast

Cover Art by Riso Chan
Album Design by Paul Galbraith of the 16k Design Works

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Michael Kiel Cash New York, New York

Michael Kiel Cash weaves tradition, authenticity, and decades of musical experience into a brand new, roots-inspired solo project. Infusing themes of mythology, philosophy, and the esoteric with familiar images of the American landscape and way of life, Michael Kiel Cash has devised an entirely unique and entrancing approach to contemporary folk music. ... more

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