Bill Staines
Bill Staines (born February 6, 1947 in Medford, Massachusetts) is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from New England, who writes and performs in a traditional vein. He has also written and recorded children's songs.
Raised in Lexington, Massachusetts, Staines began his professional career in the early 1960s in the Cambridge area. He began touring nationwide a few years later. In 1975 he won the National Yodeling Championship at the Kerrville Folk Festival. He performs about 200 times a year and has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, and The Good Evening Show.
Staines's songs include "Bridges", "Crossing the Water", "Sweet Wyoming Home", "The Roseville Fair", "A Place in the Choir", "Child of Mine", and "River".
His songs have been recorded by many other artists, including Peter, Paul and Mary, Makem and Clancy, Nanci Griffith, Mason Williams, The Highwaymen, Glenn Yarbrough, Jerry Jeff Walker, Schooner Fare, Grandpa Jones, The Grace Family, Hank Cramer, Coty Hogue and Priscilla Herdman. Staines has recorded 22 of his own albums, 15 of which were still in print as of 2005. Staines's songs have been published in four songbooks, If I Were a Word, Then I'd Be a Song; River; Music to Me: The Songs of Bill Staines, and All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir.
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ALBUMS
- Beneath Some Lucky Star released: 2012
- Old Dogs released: 2007
- The Second Million Miles released: 2005
- Journey Home released: 2004
- October's Hill released: 2000
- Just Play One Tune More released: 1998
- One More River released: 1998
- The First Million Miles, Volume II released: 1998
- Looking for the Wind released: 1995
- The Alaska Suite released: 1994
- Miles released: 1994
- Going to the West released: 1993
- The Happy Wanderer released: 1993
- Tracks and Trails released: 1991
- Bridges released: 1989
- The First Million Miles released: 1989
- Redbird's Wing released: 1987
- Wild, Wild Heart released: 1985
- Sandstone Cathedrals released: 1982
- Rodeo Rose released: 1981
- The Whistle of the Jay released: 1979
- Old Wood and Winter Wine released: 1977
- Third Time Around released: 1973
- Bill Staines released: 1971
- Somebody Blue released: 1967
- A Bag of Rainbows released: 1966
The Second Million Miles
Released 2005- Dear Friend
- The Philosopher's Song
- Journey Home
- Child of Mine
- Four Little Sailors
- Autumn Waltz
- Where Does the Love Go
- Louisiana Storm
- Prairie in the Sky
- When I Hear the Music Play
- Leatherwing Bat
- Song for Tingmissartoq
- Crossing the Water
- So Sang the River
- Distances and Miles
- Little Brown Dog
- How Can I Keep From Singing
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The Logging Song
by: Bill StainesTraditional
I gave my love a cherry that had no stone.
I gave my love a chicken that had no bone.
I gave my love a baby with no cryin'.
And I told my love a story that has no end.
How can there be a cherry that has no stone?
How cab ther be a chicken that has no bone?
How can there be a baby with no cryin'?
How can you tell a story that has no end?
A cherry when it's bloomin, there ain't no stone
A chicken when it's pipping, there ain't no bone.
And when a baby's sleeping, there's no crying.
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