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Letter Home

from Beauty In The Dirt by Cory Seznec

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This is a last letter to my brothers
I've had no word have you forgotten poor me
I know Mr Tidwell handed you my mail
So why have I no response to my pleas?

I am now major, without clothes or horses, I paid $250 for a pair of boots
I need the plain gold ring and hundred dollar bonds your bills aren't worth a copper button on a grey suit

I've recovered from Missionary Ridge but we've not been out of hearing of the guns for 40 days and nights
Angeline will give you some trinkets of mine to make me Mollie Markham's daguerrotype

If I am killed when the war closes, don't leave me here all by myself
If I am killed carry me back to the family burying ground
Bury me with my kin

This is a goodbye to my brothers I hope to see you again but i have little chance of hope
My best and kindest love to your families, I've brought honor on our name i hope you know

If I am killed when the war closes, don't you leave me here all by myself
If I am killed bring my body back to the family burying ground
and Bury me
If I am killed when the war closes don't you leave me here by myself
When I am killed bring my body back to the family burying ground
And bury me with my kin

This is a goodbye to my brothers

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from Beauty In The Dirt, released April 15, 2014

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Cory Seznec Paris, France

Somewhere between musical wanderer and uncertified ethnomusicologist dwells the artist Cory Seznec and his unique world.
A French-American in Paris, Seznec’s fingerstyle guitar-playing is syncopated, polyrhythmic, cross-pollinated, and idiosyncratic. He also sings, plays old-time banjo, and wades in the deep river of American song.
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