Build a Barn
Album: When the Smoke Clears
By: Joe Uveges and Stephanie Pauline
By: Joe Uveges and Stephanie Pauline
Duration
3:17
Genres
Description
Note from Steph: This CD project was funded through valued "backers" on kickstarter. I was thinking how Kickstarter really enables “barn raisings” pioneer style. Then and there this song was born. I confess, while I have attended my share of flax seed street dances in Wildrose, ND, I have not yet been to a hoedown. (That's where my daddy's daddy's daddy was the first in his county to homestead in 1904-WAY back when North Dakota was “The West.”)
Lyrics
Grandpa once told me how that old barn was made Said, “I was just a boy,” though it seems like yesterday In those days daddy gave all he had and more And mamma with her smile never let on we were poor Pastor put the word out and everybody came I was standing with my Pa looking out across the plains There we saw them streamin’ cross that bare Dakota field Walkin’ in and ridin’ on hooves, and wagon wheels *So come on build a barn with me There’s nothing we can't do, together if we try Bring strong hands and family Get ’er done and have a hoedown before the night I remember as a little girl thinking that was sweet And wishing I’d lived then within a small town’s reach Then last night I got an e-vite from a friend of a friend A mom of three who’s pregnant needed help to make the rent Facebook said her man was givin’ it his all Holdin’ down the job and kids while she’s in the hospital And there I saw us streaming cross the bare computer wires A song of gifts and prayers, just like an old church choir
