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Remastered from earlier Devil is Beating His Wife album, with new mandolin part

Kathy Kostelec - vocals, mandolin
Bill Kostelec - resonator guitar

lyrics

Why Do You Stay by Kathy Kostelec
© 2002

Why do you stay
Why do you stay
Why do you stay
Why do you stay
When your tears fall hard as stones
When your tears fall hard as stones
On the dry Kentucky clay.

I’ll tend your garden every day
I’ll tend your garden every day
Till my hands they crack and bleed
Till my hands they crack and bleed
But the blood from my broken heart you’ll never see.

The summer sun is oh so heavy
The summer sun is oh so heavy
Like bricks upon my back
Like bricks upon my back
But the weight inside my soul will never leave.

Why do you stay
Why do you stay
Why do you stay
Why do you stay
When you’re tears fall hard as stones
When you’re tears fall hard as stones
On the dry Kentucky clay
On the dry Kentucky clay.

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, mandolin
Bill Kostelec - resonator guitar, vocals

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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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