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Finale

from The Folk Opera by Annie Bacon

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[Jocko]

Do you need a phone?

[Garrison]

Do you need some tea?

[Richard]

I can drive you home

[Alicia Grace]

You want to stay with me?

[Townsfolk]

Is there someone we can call?
You shouldn’t try to talk
Lean against this wall
Here, I’ll help you walk

She was smiling when she passed
That ought to ease your heart
Tragedies, they always come on fast

It was a terrible mistake
Throwing water onto oil
A bitter twist of fate
Brought you to this soil

It wasn’t just your aunt
We lost the old man, too
Benjamin DeFaunt
Of Colusa Avenue

[Elizabeth]

Benjamin DeFaunt
Gentle Benjamin DeFaunt

[Townsfolk repeat first two verses + chorus with Elizabeth underneath]

[Elizabeth]

. . . Stranger, he was not a stranger
. . . He knew there was danger, he came to soothe her

. . . Like a father sings to his child when the thunder breaks
. . . He held her hand, he walked with her the whole way

. . . What more can a person ask?
. . . Somehow it does
. . . they always come on fast

[All]

They were smiling when they went
And that eases our hearts
There’s love in death, it isn’t just the end

[fin]

credits

from The Folk Opera, released December 2, 2010
Elizabeth Greenblatt (Elizabeth)
Savannah Jo Lack (violin)
Annie Bacon (ukulele, Rita)
Joe Lewis (upright bass)
Dave Scott (trumpet)

Townsfolk:
Karl-Mauks Koepke (Jocko)
Megan Keely (Garrison)
Geoff Bouvier (Richard)
Lady Sunrise (Alicia Grace)
Kate Cockrill
Howie Cockrill
Caitlin Fahey
Benjamin Thorne
Benny Lee

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The Folk Opera San Francisco, California

Written and composed on the ukulele during a 6-week trip on two distant continents,recorded live at The Tower Studios in SF’s Mission District, and self-released digitally and on vinyl in December 2010, Annie Bacon’s The Folk Opera is a haunting and triumphant extended musical suite written for ukulele, upright bass, fiddle, trumpet, and multiple voices. ... more

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