A Tiny Broken Heart
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- čas přidán 14. 03. 2024
- For this installment in this year's story song series, Katie joined me on a Louvin Brothers' song from their album Tragic Songs of Life, the same album that featured Knoxville Girl. Corie also played rhythm guitar and Tipper played bass, though both of them are out of frame. I always thought this was a really nice melody with a great little story, though I never knew of anyone else recording it. Dan Tyminski changed that recently, when he recorded it with his band. If you don't recognize his name, he provided the lead vocal for the Man of Constant Sorrow in the film O, Brother, Where Art Thou? His lead vocal was later featured in another number 1 song, Hey, Brother. Anyway, back to this song. Katie said that she read online that Ira wrote the song about a true event, when a neighboring family moved away, leaving him or Charlie (I can't remember which) sad because of a crush on the share cropper's daughter. I identify a little bit with the song vicariously through Pap's youth. When he was a boy, his parents share cropped on the Harshaw Farm and a few other places. The little boy in this song doesn't seem to fully understand the relationship between the workers and the land owners. It seems he probably figured they owned the land on which they were living. Misunderstandings happened once or twice when Pap was a boy, which sometimes caused his parents financial loss. One of them was when Pap and his uncle Wayne (who was only a few years older) took a load of watermelons into the town of Murphy to sell. The melons weren't selling fast enough, and Wayne had a date with a girl that night, so he dropped the price to get rid of them, not realizing that the price drop would have to come entirely from Pap's parents' earnings, not be split between them and the land owner. I don't know if any of what happened was Pap's idea or that he actively participated in not following what they were instructed to do, but Wayne and Pap both got whippings for selling the melons too cheaply and also for the fact that Wayne ran the horses too hard back to the farm, which was detectable by their sweat. My favorite part of this song is when the 7-year-old boy states innocently, "Let us buy the farm so they can stay." When you're a young child, you think your "love affairs" are forever and ever, and you think things are just that simple. The love in this song is even younger than the young love that Sonny James sang about. :-) The little boy doesn't understand that his father can't simply buy the neighboring farm. He only knows that his sweetheart is his whole world. If you check out the Louvins' recording of this song, you'll hear not only excellent harmony singing but also fantastic mandolin work from Ira. I originally planned to film this song with Mr. Jamie Shook, but we didn't have time to work it out. Katie filled in on the spur of the moment, even though her baby is due any day! I didn't plan to capture the photos behind us, but they seem appropriate for the song. The baby boy on the right is my grand nephew Asa Alexander. The baby boy on the left is my grand nephew Elek Wilson, along with his mother Maddie and father Mark. I see that there are two more weekends in March. For the final weekend, I hope to feature a funny story song, sung by the Late Mr. Sam Ensley. I have an online friend who is working on a cartoon to go along with the song. For the next weekend, I will either try to get back with Jamie Shook or upload a solo story song. I hope you enjoyed mine and Katie's performance of A Tiny Broken Heart, though neither of us were very practiced or familiar with the song. I pasted the lyrics below:
He was just a little farm lad so busy at play
In his little play house down by the gate.
He stopped to watch a truck that was parking next door
At the home of his tiny playmate;
Then he saw his Daddy watching too,
As the man swiftly walked to the cottage door.
He knew they were strangers that came from the town,
Men he had never seen before.
They soon were at their work and he heard his Daddy say,
"Our neighbors are moving today."
"Oh no," he cried, "Dear God, don't let it be.
They can't take my sweetheart away.
I know, Dad, that you don't understand
How a heart so young could conceive a plan.
I'm only seven now, but it's just like you said,
Daddy, someday I'll be a man."
"The man who owns the farm where your playmate now lives,
He told me it has to be this way.
For winter time has come and their work is all done,
So now they are moving away."
"Let us buy the farm so they can stay.
Give them all my toys that dear Santy gave,
And give him the pennies in my little piggy bank,
Pennies that my darling helped me save."
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They have beautiful harmony, good as Pap and Paul.
Beautiful . I love to hear Katie and Paul sing together! Prayers for Granny.
Beautiful harmony of two Beautiful voices. You know your lil boy is listening to his momma singing.
Thanks so much, Diana!
Exactly, and getting that music/joy in his body and soul ! I love it for those babies when their mothers sing and play. It's just got to be good for them.
Thanks Katie and Paul!❤️🙏🇨🇦
I love to hear Katie sing!
Me too. Such a rich, warm and honest voice.
Thanks, Papaw. Me too! God blessed her with an amazing voice and the talent to use it!
Superb.
Wow, the two of you harmonize very well!! Looking forward to more..
Wonderful! Uncle and Niece voices blend so beautifully and that guitar playing is amazing too! Thank you for this inspirational video!
Wow. Very nice. Not used to hearing Katie sing harmony. Excellent job- both of you.
Wow...such great harmonizing. And a sweet little song. I love songs that tell stories.
OUTSTANDING!! 👏👏👏❤
Aww beautiful❤❤❤❤
Nice! Your voices blend well together!! Enjoyed it!
Very nice ❤
Thanks
Fantastic
So pretty…. Love y’all, and thank you for singing for us ✌️
Beautiful voices ❤ thank you for singing for us, hope y’all have a wonderful weekend.
Beautiful ❤️
Beautiful and great harmony. Love to hear your singing.
Awesome!!!
Beautiful harmony and song!
Such beautiful, tender harmony on this sweet tune. Bravo! And thank you.
Beautiful. More like this please.
Beautiful!
Awesome you two! ❤
Beautiful beautiful
Beautiful harmony
Love it, y'all should do this more often. God bless y'all.
Very Nice..Love the picking....Peter
Reminded me of my great aunt and uncle who were sweethearts from the second grade and 65 years of marriage. As always your family's music brings tears to my eyes but in a sweet gentle way and I thank you.
Thanks, Janet. Sometimes those childhood romances are indeed forever! :-)
Beautiful beautiful! Thank you. Katie, tears come easy and uncontrolled for EVERY almost due Mama and I felt so touched by your singing, I thought you were going to join me in beautiful tears that God collects for us. Praying for you!!!!😊
Thanks a bunch, Caroline!
First time on this channel but I watch the twins and your other channel every day. Man Paul and Katie can really sing beautiful harmony.
Katie I miss your fiddle playing. Prayers to all.
Oh WOW!!! Fantastic!!! Love the harmony and of course your picking!!! Thanks!!! Great song too!!!
When your little man gets to fussin' just sing him some of your songs. He's listening now, you know.
I love this song so much. Would love to hear it every day…oh my how good to hear your all play and sing.
Beautiful song and a wonderful blending of your voices ❤️ ❤️
Beautiful 😢❤✝️😍
So good!
Beautiful! Both of you!❤️❤️
👏🏻🎶👏🏻Bravo and Encore👏🏻🙏🎶💙👶💙🎶🙏👏🏻Always enjoy. 👋💙👋Katie you look so uncomfortable. Soon to change, baby boy will ease all that. ☺️Jennifer Praying for you all. God bless you. 👋💙🙏💙👋
you guys need to go to the Opry!!! ❤
Enjoyed ❤
Beautiful harmony Paul and Katie. You blend together great. I remember hearing this song years ago. Great guitar playing Paul. Baby time is near Katie! 💙🙏
Yes, it truly is, Jill. Thanks so much!
Paul, you and Katie sound Great together. I haven't read the word "whippings" in years. Thanks for sharing
Beautiful singing.❤
Awesome job Paul and Katie' love that harmony!! it is a beautiful song.Thank you for sharing and God bless y'all
Bravo!! Beautiful harmony!! ♥️🙏🏼♥️
Thank you, Judy!
The innocence of a young child. Oh if life was just that simple💝🥹
Oh y’all sang so beautifully together! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks Team, first time I have heard this song. Very nicely done in music and voice. God Bless all.
Beautiful singing Paul and Katie! God bless y’all! 😀❤️
Is it back labor pains, Katie? My labor with my first son was nothing but a bad back ache….no contractions. He was born “sunny side up”.
You harmonize with Paul wonderfully!
Katie, you sound like your Granny🥰💗💗🙌. God bless you ALL 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Real nice. The harmonizing is beautiful and Paul's picking is terrific as usual. 👏👏👏
Good song
Love to watch you play Paul. Any time you want to serenade me in person just hollar ! 😊
♥️✝️🇺🇸 sweet song
Nice sound😊
I absolutely LUV Granny's voice!!!! She should do audio books! 🥰
Thanks, Kimberly. I'll tell her you said that. She did do a good job, just one take. :-)
Lol. I don't think she'll like being called "Granny" though.😅
@@user-yz9yg4yx1k Paul's mother is Granny. Not Katie.
I absolutely love this. Tipper, your Daddy would love this! Katie has such a beautiful voice, she is such a joy to listen to. (Your brother as well, God has Blessed your family with talent for sure. )
Thanks, Stephanie! I agree completely. There's a beautiful tenderness to Katie's harmony on this song.
It was great to see and hear your niece Katie singing along on this number, Paul. Thanks to invisible Tipper and Corie as well.👍 Something else that would be enjoyable is for Katie to play her fiddle again.
Thanks, Noah. I thought about getting Katie to play a break, but I think just doing this much took a little out of her physically. Hopefully, we'll get her fiddling again in the not too distant future!
Love that harmony and the dove. God bless yall😊
Wonderfully done. The harmony is so pretty and loved the song. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful as usual! 😊🌼
The harmony on this is perfect. I know the girls sing well together, but the harmony between Katie and Paul reminds me of that between Pap and Granny. Very perfect pitch. ❤
Great job everyone! Paul, I really liked how you acknowledged the innocence in the 7-year-old boy's statement about buying the farm so they can stay. It's true that when you're young, you tend to think things are that simple. When I was a few years older than the boy in this song, I used to watch The Big Valley and Bonanza. Watching The Big Valley made me want to have a big farmhouse while watching Bonanza made me want a log cabin on 250 acres. I thought I would just get one of each! Haha! Well, even though I don't own either of them (although I've had the opportunity to rent some big houses over the years), I'm very grateful for my one-story house on 6 acres! Another great story song. Thank you! Hang in there Katie. Praying for you!
Good to see u and Paul together beautiful harmony Would love to see more. Almost finished soon gonna be holding little one and will see your feet and tie shoes. Get ready for your world to change in ways one can't imagine for rest of your life you wil
Have the Special honor of being a mom.Best of luck with your delivery. Mat God Bless you with a quick and uneventful birth. Uneventful. meaning Easy as Easy can Be
You both sounded great family harmony please sing more for us love you❤❤❤
Fabulous job Paul and Katie. Blessings.
Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕🍀🌼
BEAUTIFUL!!! There is no other way to describe the beautiful harmony.
Paul and Katie thank you for these beautiful songs. Paul I really appreciate you guitar skills❤❤❤
Thanks, Linda. I should have played much louder. Sometimes it's hard to get the balance right between all the instruments and voices.
Love their music can never have too much of their music ❤patsy
So glad that you enjoy it, Patsy! Thanks!
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Sounded so good!
So beautiful! ❤
This is just so beautiful !!! BOOM💥 is your voices together, that harmony perfection. God bless the souls of your kin who instilled and cultivated such a thing. I just love to know that little baby is experiencing this, so good for him. 🙌🏼 💞
Just love this family ❤
Great song and harmony!! Life's solutions to problems are so simple through a child's eyes! There are times when I long for those simple & innocent times.
Me too, Johnny. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Love it! ❤
love it thanks for sharing it as its monday here in new zealand have an awesome week and take care
Loved this. How sweet. Thank you!❤😊
Paul and Katie that was beautiful youns sounded so great together I didn't see Corie but I think I heard her talk so wonderful to hear you all❤️ Shelby
Lovely harmony. I love to hear you both sing. God bless. Have a wonderful weekend.
Great harmony. Love hearing you both. God bless all. 🙂🙋🙏
Oh that was just wonderful, and as always I really appreciate the story you tell to go along with it Paul. I seem to remember quite a while ago that Katie told the story of wishing that one day she would be able to buy back the family lands around you all that had sold to a cattle farm? Am I remembering correctly, maybe Katie could set me straight (I could be confused about that part, lol) Anyway I did really enjoy the music as always!
Beautiful! ❤
So very beautifully sung. Your voices blend wonderful together. Praying for you, Katie, as you step into motherhood. I've never heard that song before, but it was tearfully great.
What a sweet little song! So sweet! I love the lyrics♥️ They did a great job!
beautiful song and you all do it really well. Thank you
Lil man tappin his lil toes I bet 💯👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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I heard Granny sing one day,i heard Katie and Corie in granny's voice,😢
🙏 AMEN! 😊 Thank you!
Paul and Katie, yall sounded pretty good having no prep time. Sometimes, doing things that way turn out better than hours of practice. Tell Katie I will be praying for her to have a quick and hopefully easy delivery.
Debbie
Tight and beautifully recorded with a lively pace. So well done and a beautiful blending of your voices, Paul and Katie! Corie and Tipper's playing were in total synch too. I'm so impressed!! Super great job y'all!
Good job Paul and Katie, I enjoyed it, I bought me a cheap guitar from Amazon I'm going to be putting some D'Addario strings on It, Tipper said you use medium gauge, I got 13-56, I've also ordered a Bone bridge for it I think this one is plastic, God bless you all in Jesus name,
Good luck with that guitar, Norman! Thanks for watching!
@@paulwilson8685 God bless you Paul, it's a beginner's guitar the neck is small, my fat fingers are cramped for space, I'll get a better one one day, God bless Granny Wilson with healing and health in Jesus name 🙏♥️
Paul what makes a cheap guitar discord? I can tune it in the bar chords do good, but regular chords are out or vice versa, thank you Paul, God bless you and your family in Jesus name
A lovely afternoon listening to both of you. ❤
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