The Dirt Floor (New Original Song!)
Channel: OYR Music
Date: 01/02/2020

My brother Kevin and his girlfriend Cheri were kind enough to host another recording session at Shake Rag Recording in Mars Hill, NC (https://www.facebook.com/shakeragrecording/).  For the occasion, I wrote a song inspired by old time mountain music. I'm joined by brother Kevin, sister Kaeylea (https://www.facebook.com/vankeithvocals/), and our friend Paul.  And my wife Karen contributed hand claps!

Credits and Lyrics: 

Paul Koptak .... Dobro
Kevin Dolan .... Vocals, Bass
Kaeylea Van Keith .... Vocals
Patrick Dolan .... Vocals, Guitar, Hand Claps, Tambourine
Karen Dolan .... Hand Claps

The Dirt Floor (Words and Music by Patrick Dolan)

The night lasted forever
I tossed and turned as if at war
Now the sun peeks through the window
To find her ring on the dirt floor

She said she loved another
She said he gave her more
She left me and our baby daughter
And threw her ring on the dirt floor
Threw her ring on the dirt floor

It would bring 2 months' wages
But I won’t sell to the pawn store
I’ll bury her ring with her memory
6 feet below the dirt floor
  
And I will raise our baby daughter
She’s all that’s left that I adore
But if she asks me of her mother
I’ll say she died and won’t be back no more
Since she threw her ring on the dirt floor

The nights still last forever
I still toss and turn as if at war
But when the sun peeks through the window
It won’t find her ring on the dirt floor
Won’t find her ring on the dirt floor