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Bluebells was written about hiking in the woods and finding those old abandoned homesites and imagining what went on there. Hope you enjoy it.

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Written & arranged by
John Bowyer & Jayme Hood

Bluebells In Ball Jars
Walking through the woods when we stumbled on what once was a little cabin home you could tell by the daffodils and the yucca plants. You could barely make out the foundation stones in the moss it’s all overgrown. The cabin logs had long since returned to the earth.
There’s a chimney standing with a mantle and a hearth, a cross cut saw, and bluebells in ball jars
No one has been here in quite a while. The nearest road is a country mile to the East back off of Scarce ‘o Fat Ridge. That stand of trees are where the fields once were, how anyone could scratch anything out of this dirt is beyond me, but that’s what they’d done.
Around a chimney standing with a mantle and a hearth, a cross cut saw and bluebells in ball jars.
Oh, on hot summer days, they’d wander off to the cool deep woods. Go to where wild flowers grow and bring some back to remind ‘em things are good.
I wonder if there ever was a moment in time when a weary traveler needed shelter in the night and was invited in to shake off the cold? Did they play fiddle around the fire and make all the young ones smile as the sound filled the cabin and made it feel like a home?
Around a chimney standing with a mantle and a hearth, a cross cut saw and bluebells in ball jars.
Around a chimney standing with a mantle and a hearth, a cross cut saw and bluebells in ball jars.

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from Shake Off The Cold, released July 2, 2022
John Bowyer Guitar, Vox
Jayme Hood Guitar, Vox
Joe Macharet Fiddle
Pat Otto Bass

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John Bowyer and Jayme Hood are born and raised Hoosiers who make their home in South Central Indiana on the Brown/Monroe county line. Together, as The Hammer And The Hatchet, they have been on tour in support of Shake Off The Cold, their fourth album of original Midwestern music, available since July of 2022. ... more

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