Jim CarpenterSimple Strand Of Pearl Folk/Acoustic Rock/Americana

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widow reflects upon her life on Virginia island. Jim Carpenter - vocals, guitars, mandolin, papoose; Byron House - acoustic bass; John Mock - tin whistle, harmonium

Simple Strand Of Pearl I am Annie Avery in 1894 I was born an only child on Virginia’s Eastern Shore the Autumn wind that cooled my skin now chills me to my bones and I mourn the sound of the wild geese bound to their winter home my husband was an oysterman whose days were spent at sea til they found him adrift on the evening tide in the boat he named for me I see him still, in the blue that fills his great-grandaughter’s eyes in a far-skinned girl with my red curls we will both survive__I will survive I hold the love of a simple man in this simple strand of pearl brought from the sea, in hopes that we would sail off to see the world but those lines were never cast away those shouls have re-arranged while he searched this shore, for one pearl more I watched the seasons change they come and go like hungry crows shiney trinkets ‘neath their wings I count them on this rosary these pearls upon a string a young girl glides on a sea of white upon the frozen bay but there will be no pretty spins for me I’ll simply skate away… I’ll skate away x