Posts Tagged ‘Montana Songwriter’
In All My Days
Song: In All My Days (lyrics) / Album: Lewis & Clark – West For America / Artist: David Walburn
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Song: Roll Missouri Roll / Album: Lewis & Clark – West For America / Artist: David Walburn
This song reflects the Lewis & Clark Expedition’s return and floating the Missouri River downriver toward home.
How Long Has It Been
Song: How Long Has It Been (lyrics) / Album: Lewis & Clark – West For America / Artist: David Walburn
This songs imagines how members of the expedition must miss their family and the homes they left behind.
Sacagawea’s Prayer
Song: Sacagawea’s Prayer (lyrics) / Album: Lewis & Clark – West For America / Artist: David Walburn
Sacagawea was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who was a part of the Lewis & Clark Expedition – she delivered a little boy, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, in February 1805. This song reflects her courage and strength as both a woman and a mother.
God Only Knows
Song: God Only Knows / Album: Lewis & Clark – West For America / Artist: David Walburn
As the Lewis & Clark Expedition left the Gates of the Rockies the task before them looked overwhelming with the landscape daunting as they were approaching the Rocky Mountains.
Whisky Down
Song: Whisky Down / Album: Lewis & Clark – West For America / Artist: David Walburn
Lewis and Clark brought enough whiskey to get them through to the Great Falls. Then the whisky ran out. The captains knew they were now too far away for the members to desert the expedition.
Push and Pull
Song: Push and Pull / Album: Lewis & Clark – West For America / Artist: David Walburn
The mighty Missouri River is the inspiration for this musical narrative with the Lewis & Clark Expedition navigating the heavy boats upriver in search of the fabled Northwest Passage.
York
Song: York (lyrics) / Album: Lewis & Clark – West For America / Artist: David Walburn
York was an African-American explorer on the Lewis and Clark Expedition who was a manservant to Captain William Clark. At least 10 years after the expedition, Clark granted York his freedom.
The Way Of Men
Song: The Way of Men / Album: Lewis & Clark – West For America / Artist: David Walburn
This song reminds me of how the men of the expedition must have felt as they were headed out on an adventure of a lifetime.
West For America
Song: West For America (lyrics) / Album: Lewis & Clark West For America / Artist: David Walburn
Title track to this historical musical compilation about the 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition.