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Dear Little Soldier Boy - Murphy Campbell (Live from the Yancey Palace)
Here's Dear Little Soldier Boy — a song written by a local Yancey County woman, Queen Belle Honeycutt, about her son being killed in Vietnam. Queen was an amazing fiddle player who definitely had some blues in her. She would tell you she never wrote a song in her life — that God wrote them through her.
It will be included on my album Revenant alongside over a dozen other ballads from the area, mainly from relatives.
I was up in Yancey County at the same cabin I used to visit when I was little