We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Boast Ye Not

from Two in a Garden by Becky & Nicole

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Physical CD of Becky & Nicole's duo record, Two in a Garden. Includes a digital download with purchase.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Two in a Garden via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 10 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $15 USD or more 

     

about

Allison wrote this as a shape-note song, but we think it works great as a camp-meeting song too. The text of the refrain comes from an epitaph that Allison found on an old New England gravestone.

lyrics

Former friends, O, how I’ve sought them!
Just to cheer my drooping mind;
But they’re gone like leaves in autumn,
Driv’n before a dreary wind.

[chorus]
Boast ye not of tomorrow
Boast ye not of tomorrow
Boast ye not of tomorrow
For thou knowest not what the day may bring

Spring and summer, fall and winter,
Each in swift succession roll,
So my friends in death do enter,
Bringing sadness to my soul.

Hollow winds around me roaring,
Noisy waters round me rise,
Whilst I sit my fate deploring,
Tears fast streaming from my eyes.

When a few more years are wasted,
When a few more scenes are o’er,
When a few more griefs are tasted,
I shall fall to rise no more.

credits

from Two in a Garden, released September 1, 2021
Allison Steel

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Becky & Nicole Northampton, Massachusetts

With Becky’s background in shapenote music and Nicole’s in sea chanteys and maritime music, Becky & Nicole sing a wide variety of traditional and trad-adjacent songs with haunting harmonies, beautiful poetry, and fun choruses that get everyone singing. They began singing together at Swarthmore College over a decade ago and have been dear friends, music partners, and roadtrip buddies ever since. ... more

contact / help

Contact Becky & Nicole

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Becky & Nicole, you may also like: