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Kate Campbell - Walk Among Stones

Kate Campbell - Walk Among Stones Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Monuments
Released: 2003

Walk Among Stones Lyrics

Walk Among Stones

This is perhaps one of Kate's most complicated songs, and she says herself it is really lots of random thoughts:
"Stars fell on Alabama" - Could be literal - could refer to the many Southern stars.
"Near the rocky shoals" - Refers to Muscle Shoals recording studio where she and many others have recorded.
"In a casket factory" - The studio was originally a casket factory.
"Where they found Soul" - Soul music is synonymous with Muscle Shoals.
"See that skinny boy there drinkin' him a coke, didn't we just see him on the Sullivan Show" - Elvis before he was famous - Ed Sullivan - Kate is a self proclaimed Elvis fan.
"We walk among the stones" - We walk among the memories and in the footsteps of those who have gone before us. Also we walk among the stones of life.
"Some say it was the cotton and workin' side by side" - Kate grew up during the time of Civil rights movement in the South and was heavily influenced by what she saw. The Cotton, and the slaves owned to pick it were both a cause of Civil war and civil rights; segregation.
"Now we're left to wonder what happened to the sound" - The end of the great rock and roll music, and Muscle Shoals sound.
"Was it 2 Kings dying" - Knowing Kate's background, it seems obvious that the two Kings are Martin Luther King, who fought for civil rights and was assassinated (there are many actual and possible references to Luther in her music) and the other is Elvis. "Who nailed the coffin down" - Who saw an end to the music as it was known, when Elvis died, and also an end to what King had been fighting for - would it have all been resolved had he not died?

Kate Campbell - Rosa's Coronas

Kate Campbell - Rosa's Coronas Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rosaryville
Released: 1999

Rosa's Coronas Lyrics

Como estas?
My name is Rosa and like my mother before me
Everyday I roll cigars and they're the finest in the world
To pass the time the reader reads about the violence in America
And I pray for my daughter and her baby girl

Late one night they took a boat ninety miles from Havana
To escape the only life I've ever known
She could have been just like me, a well-respected working woman
Who believes in her country and her home

And I wonder as I roll where will each one go
Will they land in the hands of kings and presidents
It's an art, it's a skill, and some would even kill
Just for one of Rosa's Coronas

It's everywhere in the news that John Paul is on his way
And for years I've longed to see the Holy Father's parade
We've been told not to go or production falls behind
But I know the quota won't be made that day

Writer/s: KATHRYN CAMPBELL
Publisher: CONEXION MEDIA GROUP, INC.
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Rosa's Coronas

Kate was inspired to write this song after watching a program about Cuban cigar makers. She had often wondered how to write a song about them, and suddenly she had a face for these people, especially for Rosa. Kate wanted it to be in first person so it was Rosa's story - or rather the story of such people told through Rosa. (thanks, Helen - South Shields, England)