![]() Our favourite latter-day ensemble version took place during a concert in New York City to celebrate the release of The Cohen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davies’ feature film. Got an awards ceremony that needs closing with a rousing sing-along? Then ‘Will The Circle Be Unbroken’ is what you’re looking for. When you close your earthly story, Will you join them in their bliss. Modern day country heroes have brought the song into the new Millennium and it continues to show up in the set-lists of roots performers across the world. They got their first, but bluegrass big-bangers Bill and Charlie Monroe followed very quickly in 1936 – before such diverse Americana pioneers as Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Joan Baez, The Neville Brothers, The Staples Singers, Bob Dylan & The Band and The Allman Brothers all recorded or played live versions in the decades that followed. It wasn’t just country music’s first family who located the ache of the famous song, however. wrote continued to pile on the misery, the song’s funereal tale talking of “slow processions”, grave sites and singing hymns that the singer’s late mother taught… but the hurt is always followed with the promise of that “better home awaiting in the sky”. Verse G I went home, my home was lonely C G Now my mother she was gone All my brothers, sisters crying D G What a home so sad and alone Chorus G Will the. ![]() Dunn is thus portrayed as a 'sincere' young female. Once Virginia-born Alvin Pleasant Carter located the lonesome whistle of the original and gave the story its universal truth with that unflinching first verse, country music followers were hooked. favour of the traditional familial values expressed in the lyrics. ![]() The resonance achieved in The Carter’s retitled ‘Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)’ in 1935 is due in no small part to song writing’s greatest magic trick: using plain language to place an ache in the middle of a memorable melody. Will the Circle Be Unbroken Lyrics Verse 1 I was standing by my window On one cold and cloudy day When I saw that hearse come rolling For to carry my mother away Chorus Will the circle be. True, the original lyrics also held a soft focus on grieving, but it was A.P and The Carter Family who put that grieving centre stage. tune), ‘Will The Circle Be Unbroken’ remains a gospel lament. In whatever form the song has taken over the years (hymn, country classic, folk favourite, trad.
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