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Cabin Visitors

from One By One by Travis Knapp

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lyrics

In the fall of twenty-fourteen right around Halloween
When the veil is thin, I was moving in

Log cabin built of pine back in 1939

I was high on chocolate, solitude, and wine,
And the pleasure of a place I could call mine


I was up long into the night, everything was feeling right
and finally I fell fast asleep

I awoke to the glow of a full moon overhead

And gazed out the front window from up in my lofted bed

There were men walking toward me from out across the land

Were those pitchforks they were holding
Or were those guns in their hands?

They made it to the door and I knew that I was trapped
So I grabbed a banjo from the wall and started to attack
I threw it down, it shattered, then I picked up a guitar
That one hit its mark, but it would not leave a scar

I had one banjo left, which they begged me not to bust

They shouted out to calm me down: “Please listen to us!”

“We just want to play a tune with you before the daylight comes”
They were holding only instruments
There were no tools or guns

We played and we played, spirits flying high
They said, “We put this building up back in 1939

So the whole town could come to dance and play into the night”


You see, our song was so compelling that everyone we’d ever loved
Came running in and walking in and flying in like doves
And joyfully united, as we wept and as we hugged

A voice spoke loud and clear, as if summoned from above:

“Remember all the love you’ve ever felt,
Each night as you lay in bed

And daily song upon your lips
Will soothe the waking and wake the dead!"


Many blessings on your days and nights, and
Blessings on the road ahead

credits

from One By One, released July 9, 2019
Travis Knapp - lead vocals, banjo, & piano
Desmond Bratton - double bass
Byron “Kidd” Cage - drum set
Elisa Sciscioli - harmony vocals
Angie Beeler - harmony vocals
Jonathan Keefner - hand percussion
Harmony Malone - tambourine
Max Buckholtz - violin
Ithaca community chorus


All songs written by Travis Knapp

Mixing and Mastering by Nate Silas Richardson, REP Studio (Ithaca, NY - www.repstudio.com)

Recorded by Nate Silas Richardson (REP Studio), and by Travis Knapp (Fun Acres Studio + various locations)

Illustration by Linda Wingerter (www.paintedbooks.com)
Packaging design & layout by Pat Burke

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Travis Knapp Ithaca, New York

"Hopeful soul-lifting acoustic folk music rooted in pop, jazz, soul, and gospel - piano/banjo/guitar/vocals; from the fields, forests, ponds, and meadows of Ithaca, NY."

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