Tear My Stillhouse Down

from Be Like the Sea by Syncopaths

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Regrets: I’ve had a few. Christa learned this rueful, cautionary song from wonderful Northern California folk singer, Sylvia Herold, in the wee hours at Lark Camp in 2009.

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LYRICS:

Put no stone at my head, no flowers on my tomb,
no gold-plated sign in a marble-pillared room.
The one thing I want, when they lay me in the ground:
when I die, tear my stillhouse down!

When I was a child, way back in the hills,
I laughed at the men who tended those stills.
But that old mountain shine, it caught me, somehow.
When I die, tear my stillhouse down!

(Chorus)
Oh, tear my stillhouse down! Let it go rust.
Don’t leave no trace of the hiding place where I made that evil stuff.
For all my time and money, no profit did I see;
that old copper kettle was the death of me!

Go tell all your children that Hell ain’t no dream,
‘cause old Satan, he lives in my whiskey machine.
And in my time of dyin’, I know where I’m bound.
When I die, tear my stillhouse down!

(Chorus)

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from Be Like the Sea, released June 16, 2023
Lyrics and music: Gillian Howard Welch, Say Uncle Music, BMI; Irving Music, BMI

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Syncopaths Culver City, California

From dance floors to concert halls, the Syncopaths bring a fresh, contemporary spin to music and songs rooted in the Scottish, Irish, and American folk traditions. The exuberant joy they derive from the music and each other is palpable and contagious. "The Syncopaths are nothing short of a Celtic supergroup." — Irish Herald, July 2011 ... more

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