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Margaret​/​Treasures in My Chest

from Treasures in My Chest by Andrew McKnight

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about

This project took a big leap into reality in the spring of 2016 when my parents introduced me to their copy of "Margaret," published in 1906 by my great-grandfather whose name I happen to share. It was a profound experience to find an ancestor who also "hears the voices" and was also driven to turn them into verse and melody, and that experience became the seed to “Treasures in My Chest”. It wasn't until I connected face to face with some of my musical second cousins in autumn 2018 that I realized their visit was what I needed to finish the song.

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"Margaret" ©Andrew McKnight, 1906 Success Music
"Treasures in My Chest" words & music ©2019 Catalooch Music, BMI

Scent of cedar rising, as I open up the lid
childhood things and so much more, darkness kept safe hidden
and it holds my stories like a sailor’s prized possessions, while he's out to sea

Wrinkled scraps of paper, and faded photographs
my name on a manuscript, and notes upon the staff
the lines unfolding on these pages I am holding, written long ago
are the gift running through my veins, and fingers on the strings as they flow

Chorus:
From these treasures in my chest
timeless rhythm beating, steady in my breast
memories and hand me downs present from the past
countless treasures in my chest

Pieces of this puzzle, of how I came to be
family names and question marks, somehow part of me
now I'm climbing up this tree exploring, branches that I see for the first time
samaritans and saints, rogues and renegades, all come alive

Message tone awakens me, from my imagining
connections in the here and now, that music brought to me
for they've sat here at my table, raising toasts and breaking bread, and it was real
we are bound by magic twists, and proof that they existed, now revealed

I'm rich with treasures in my chest

credits

from Treasures in My Chest, released February 28, 2020
Aly McKnight - piano on "Margaret"
AM - vocal and guitar

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Nationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter and guitarist celebrates rural America, weaves masterfully crafted songs, humorous stories and poetic drama into a musical soundscape sketched with shades of Appalachia, tasteful slide and jazzy blues, feisty anthems, and rustic folk. 5 solo CDs heard on many public & community radio, plus NPR "Art of the Song" & "River City Folk" and XM/Sirius. ... more

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