I vividly remember being at the Harry Smith Frolic in Greenfield, MA in 2015, and watching Rosie Newton, Jed Greenberg, Brian Slattery, and Jim Miller play some of the most transcendental old time music I've ever heard. I swear half the festival was watching. After playing a ferocious A-tune, someone jokingly yelled "Play a waltz!" and this is what came out. They played under a tree in a field under the stars and I remember wanting to be nowhere else in the universe.
lyrics
Well I played cards in England,
I gambled in Spain.
Going back to Rhode Island
for to play my last game.
Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds,
I've known you for old.
You robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold.
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