04 Crybaby Holler

from The Shadow Mountain Fae by Sencha Skene

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Almost every town seems to have some version of 'Crybaby Holler' or 'Crybaby Bridge' where teens go at night and listen for the distant cries of a baby. I grew up near one in Abbeville, South Carolina myself.
Once I was reading that back in the days before abortion, parents of unwanted children would abandon them in the woods and say, "The faeries stole them."
Not only is it abominable that parents would do that to a child, it was more than a bit unfair to blame the faeries for it.
This song is for all the lost children.

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from The Shadow Mountain Fae, released March 1, 2022
Crybaby Holler
2022© Charlton Hall

In the backwoods of a farming town
Among the trailers and the shacks
Another broken and unwanted child
Somehow slipped right through the cracks

Close your eyes and make them disappear
All the lonely and downtrodden
Another child another souvenir
Sacrifice of the forgotten

CHORUS
Where do the lost children go
The abandoned sons and daughters
Ask the wind, I think she’ll know
Crybaby Holler

Not a changeling, not a stolen child
No fairy realm to live within
Just another inconvenient truth
To turn your back on once again

Listen closely you can hear the sound
Midnight mourning on the wind
Lamentations of ten thousand souls
Who paid the price for all your sins

CHORUS
Where do the lost children go
The forgotten sons and daughters
Ask the wind, I think she’ll know
Crybaby Holler

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Sencha Skene Seattle, Washington

(pronounced SHEN-ka SKAYNE)
I study all forms of spirituality.
The more I learn about paths from around the world, the more I know they all have more in common than not.

I seek the ancient origins of spirituality; the realms of animism and shamanism.

I began music in 1974. My influences were Neil Young, John Prine, Dan Fogelberg, and Pink Floyd.

Now I seek the mystical through music.
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