"All Blues Hail Mary" from Blood From Stars by Joe Henry

Joe Henry - Blood From Stars All Blues Hail Mary

Tracks on this album

1.Prelude: Light No Lamp When The Sun Comes Down
2.The Man I Keep Hid
3.Channel
4.This Is My Favorite Cage
5.Death To The Storm
6.All Blues Hail Mary
7.Bellwether
8.Progress of Love
9.Over Her Shoulder
10.Suit On A Frame
11.Truce
12.Stars
13.Coda: Light No Lamp When The Sun Comes Down

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Contributors

ISRC:USEP40913006
Recorded:2009 The Garfield House - South Pasadena, CA

Upright & Tack Piano, Field Organ, Keyboards:Patrick Warren
Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitar:Joe Henry
Drums, Percussion:Jay Bellerose
Keyboards, Piano, Vibraphone:Keefus Ciancia
Tenor & Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet:Levon Henry
Bass:David Piltch
Electric, Acoustic & Gut String Guitar, Bowed Banjo, Coronet:Marc Ribot

Lyrics

From the mountain comes a soul
And stones grow up like trees,
From the mountain comes a soul
And stones grow up like trees—
All blues hail Mary with her roses,
But you’re their masterpiece

Cut away each blade of grass
Our feet cannot tramp down,
The limb of every hanging tree
That time’s left hanging down—
All blues sing that love is light not glory,
A story, not a crown

I won’t be death’s sad trophy
While I still lie awake,
I won’t be death’s sad trophy
While I still lie awake—
All the blues sing of love and death and you
As chances yet to take

How dark this bit of light so late
That falls upon your breast,
How dark this bit of light so late
That falls upon your breast—
All blues and grace, by God, and I
Will have to learn the rest