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Meadowlark (after Keats

from Local Honey by Under the Big Oak Tree

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Meadowlark in the meadow

With the blue sky above

Won’t you sing me back home

With a song that I love?

I’m drowsy and numb

And melting in air

Meadowlark in the meadow

Will you take me there?



Darkly I’ve listened

For many a time

And called you soft names

In many a rhyme

In the grasses and thickets

In the fruit trees wild

Meadowlark in the meadow

Mid-May’s first child



Meadowlark in the meadow

With the tall grass below

Won’t lighten my heart

With a song that I know

Away away

I’d fly with thee

On the shimmering wings

Of a sweet melody



For a cup of fine wine

And a purple stained mouth

Aged deep in the earth

In the sweet sunny south

That I might drink

And leave the world unseen

And with you fade away

In a forest dream



To fade far away

Dissolve and forget

The worrisome ways

The fever and fret

What among the leaves

We’re never to see

Meadowlark in the meadow

Come, let’s go free!



Meadowlark in the meadow

‘Neath the cool setting sun

Your beak has been twisted

From battles hard won

But still would you sing

The moon to up to her throne

Meadowlark in the meadow

Will you take me home?

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from Local Honey, released January 22, 2016

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Under the Big Oak Tree St. Joseph, Missouri

Under the Big Oak Tree’s blend of vintage folk, acoustic country, & traditional bluegrass has been described as “warm” and “picturesque” with “flawless harmonies.”

The band’s 2014 debut recording stood out as “one of the most lush, beautiful records to come out of the local scene,” and made multiple year-end best lists. The group’s second album, Local Honey, will be released on MudStomp Records.
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