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This is my submission for the Bill Monroe Centennial Art Exhibit at the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky. It measures 16 x 20 inches. My paper cutting was based upon the lyrics to Monroe’s song “The First Whippoorwill.” <\/p>\n
From the museums website: “As a means of organically celebrating art-with-art, we are inviting visual artists to create a special Monroe Centennial Exhibit that will remain on display in this museum from June 23, 2010 through September 11, 2012 — a year before and after the 100th anniversary of Monroe\u2019s birthday on September 13, 2011. Each artist will create a work of art based on and inspired by an original Monroe song. The exhibit will include song lyrics on a plaque beside each work of art. Recordings of Bill Monroe playing these songs will emanate throughout the Exhibit.”<\/p>\n
Here are the lyrics to “The First Whippoorwill” by Bill Monroe: I know that soon I’ll have to travel The flowers are blooming, little darling I know that soon I’ll have to travel Our love was planted, little darling I know that soon I’ll have to travel This is my submission for the Bill Monroe Centennial Art Exhibit at the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky. It measures 16 x 20 inches. My paper cutting was based upon the lyrics to Monroe’s song “The First Whippoorwill.” From the museums website: “As a means of organically celebrating art-with-art, we are inviting visual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cut-paper","category-new-work","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSpringtime is near, my darling
\nYou say, that you are going away
\nMy heart will be with you my darling
\nAnd I’m counting now the days<\/p>\n
\nI know I’m over the hill
\nI feel so all alone, my darling said she’d be gone
\nWhen I heard that first whippoorwill<\/p>\n
\nWith the budding of the trees
\nI hear the night birds a’crying
\nI know that they are warning me<\/p>\n
\nI know I’m over the hill
\nI feel so all alone, my darling said she’d be gone
\nWhen I heard that first whippoorwill<\/p>\n
\nJust like the farmer plants his grain
\nBut there will never be a harvest
\nOn the hills the whippoorwill now sing<\/p>\n
\nI know I’m over the hill
\nI feel so all alone, my darling said, she’d be gone
\nWhen I heard that first whippoorwill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"