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Silver Valley Highway

from Sing While You Can by Blue Ribbon Tea Company

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about

Written while driving through north Idaho's Silver Valley on our way to play a music show in Montana
Kathy Kostelec - vocals, autoharp
Bill Kostelec - guitar, backing vocals

lyrics

Silver Valley Highway by Kathy Kostelec © August 2007

Chorus: There’s gold up in the hills and there’s silver in the ore
There’s beauty in the life that treasures something more

We’re heading to Montana swaying with a heavy load
Silence shades the sunshine, traffic is heavy on this road
Past hard rock mines, warning signs, and the valley days of old
Now tourist ports and ski resorts have claimed a new found gold.

(Chorus)

Like the cycles of the past, like a glass revolving door
Barron’s build their mansions leave the tailings to the poor
This all in time will crumble and the mansions they will fall
It’s spelled for all to see but it’s fading on the wall

(Chorus)

A Barron’s on the hillside and a boss man’s on the line
A worker’s on the scaffold and a worker’s in the mine
We may go our own direction but we travel the same roads
Will you stop and lend a hand if I fall under my load

(Chorus)

Are you measured by your wealth and by your silver and your gold
Or by the hand you give to the others on this road
We can’t see what lies ahead of us, we can’t change the path behind
But we’ll travel on together through these ancient mountain pines.

(Chorus)

credits

from Sing While You Can, track released April 11, 2023
Recorded and produced by Bill and Kathy Kostelec
Kostelec Music Publishing
Kathy Kostelec - vocals, autoharp
Bill Kostelec - guitar, vocals
photo by Bill - You never know what you can get out of really old black and white film!

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Blue Ribbon Tea Company Spokane, Washington

"evocative" "unconventional" "Woody-Guthrie-esque"

Illinois factory towns, Kentucky heartache, Spokane history...

Singing their stories at festivals, venues, on Public Radio, and on the front porch.

Bill & Kathy Kostelec are "a welcomed flashback to the original American Folk music movement..the real deal." musician and radio host/producer Bob Rice
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