Name: No More Encores
Duration: P00H03M34S
Description: Not the first song I ever wrote, but the first one I was proud of writing. It meanders around the kind of musician who you hear people talking about how great they used to be, with the unmentioned undertone of how they're fading away, singing the same old few songs over and over again without any heart, and definitely no more encores from a deserted audience.

No More Encores

from A Blast of a few Ballads on the Banjo by Derek Copley

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Not the first song I ever wrote, but the first one I was proud of writing. It meanders around the kind of musician who you hear people talking about how great they used to be, with the unmentioned undertone of how they're fading away, singing the same old few songs over and over again without any heart, and definitely no more encores from a deserted audience.

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There's a man who's standing the wind in his hair
And through his fingers as he wonders
All his life alone standing there
No monuments of glory will stand to his fame

The crowds go by like the years in his mind
A sad lament on the whistling wind
Friends of old pass stranger today
They don't want an encore they had yesterday

The tables are empty another day gone
He'll soon join them in fading memory
One last dance, one final song
The parting glass is all he'll receive

Sure it was good but it could've been great
No desertion the crowd he'd hold
But the rusty strings now sing their own faith
In the same old direction down the same old road

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from A Blast of a few Ballads on the Banjo, released March 30, 2020
Written by Derek Copley
Copyright Derek Copley

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Derek Copley Dublin, Ireland

Traditional music and song, expressed on some kind of a banjo, at times played on 5-string banjo in clawhammer style, and other times on tenor banjo.

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