From the recording Blue Ridge Mountain Time: Songs from Wildacres
(2017): prompt: (written at Columbia, NC) a map of Albemarle Sound. Alison Weiner on piano, Jay Miller on sax. Aren't they amazing??
Lyrics
Let me lay down beside you, Sweet Albemarle
We’ll spend our days together right here where you are
River she humming a sleepy lullaby
Peaceful water draw nigh
From Pleasant View to Scotia, Blount to Dillion Ridge
Many a fortune made and lost fishing from a bridge
Somerset and Burgess, Vahalla and Windfall
Last one standing wins all
Now Albemarle will make her bed
Wherever she does choose
And what she gives is a gift that you can’t refuse
She’s taking when she’s giving when swollen waters rise
Here comes the flood with the tide
Let me lay down beside you, Sweet Albemarle
We’ll spend our days together right here where you are
Lord, have mercy, she’s done and changed her tune
She’s singing the Albemarle blues
Got me singing the Albermarle blues