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Ashe County Fair

from Wildflowers by Jonathan Byrd

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I have traveled from afar just to go to the Ashe County Fair.
Last night I slept out under the stars. Today I'll be at the Ashe County Fair.

Last year i met a beauty there. Her arms were brown and her face was fair. There were seven roses pinned in her hair. She sold pies at the Ashe County Fair.

I bought more than I could eat just to talk to a girl so sweet with her eyes like water and her hair like wheat, blowing around at the Ashe County Fair.

I asked her if she could go with me. She said, "My dear boy, that never could be.My mother's dead and my family needs me to sell my pies at the Ashe County Fair.

I knew right then that I must return or my heart would always yearn for her golden voice in my memory burned, above the noise at the Ashe County Fair.

I sold my cabin and a parcel of land. Bartered away for a small golden band. It was just right for a pie cooking hand, to pledge my love at the Ashe County Fair.

The winter last was long and cold. The fever took both the young and the old. County Ashe was hit hard I am told. This year there'll be no Ashe County Fair.

I spent a long day searching the town. Late afternoon, 'twas her father I found. He said, "I buried my girl in the hard, frozen ground in the field under the Ashe County Fair."

The wedding band, it weighed heavy like a stone. I left it to lay on her grave overgrown. I left my heart to be buried with her bones in the field under the Ashe County Fair.

Now I ramble this country wide. Maybe someday I will take a bride. Then perhaps I shall be satisfied, but for the memory of the Ashe County Fair.

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from Wildflowers, released January 1, 2001

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Jonathan Byrd Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Preacher's kid, Gulf War veteran, award-winning songwriter, Youtuber, teacher, and creativity coach from North Carolina.

“One of the top 50 songwriters of the last 50 years. ” — Chicago Tribune

“...a folk singer with the heart of a rock 'n' roll band.” — K. Oliver, Free Times.
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