Buffalo Rose

Announcer: Put your hands together for Buffalo Rose!

[audience applauding and cheering]

Lucy Clabby: Let’s go.

[“Runaway” by Buffalo Rose]

Oh no no no

[upbeat bluegrass music]

I don’t wanna run away

Mmm mmm

You got your questions, you don’t like my answers

I talk in circles ’cause I can’t get straight

I do resemble what I can’t remember

I do remember ’cause it just can’t wait

You know they say if it ain’t broke don’t fix it

I know you think it’s just a cool clich

I know you always think you know what I’m always thinking

I think you’re always wrong, but honey, that’s okay

Oh no no no no no no

I don’t wanna run away

Forever’s just a long, long way to go

Oh oh oh

I’m sick of planning everything

Reality is just a daydream

A daydream don’t let go

[upbeat bluegrass music]

I know it’s real because I’m up here dancing

And feeling free is such a beautiful thing

I hope they never ever stop that music

‘Cause it’s enough to make a grown man say

Oh no no no no no no

I don’t wanna run away

Forever’s just a long, long way to go

Oh oh oh oh oh

I’m sick of planning everything

Reality is just a daydream

A daydream don’t let go

What if it’s too good?

Too good to be true?

I will make it good

Good enough for you

What if it’s too good?

Too good to be true?

I will make it good

Good enough for you

What if it’s too good?

Too good to be true?

I will make it good

Oh oh oh, no no no

I don’t want to run away

Forever’s just a long, long way to go

Oh oh oh

I’m sick of planning everything

Reality is just a daydream

A daydream don’t let go, oh oh

Lucy Clabby: Give it up, Bryce!

Margot Jezerc: Come on!

I don’t wanna run away

Oh oh oh oh Play it!

Sick of planning everything

[audience applauding and cheering]

Bryce Rabideau: People are extremely friendly and supportive, and considering this is entirely original music all week, as touring musicians, we rarely get that kind of response for just an hour of original music. We usually have to pepper in some covers and make sure people know, recognize some larger percentage of our set, and the fact that people are just here to listen to what we do and make is amazing.

Lucy Clabby: Everybody makes us feel like rock stars when we’re here. [all laugh]

[“Body Language” by Buffalo Rose]

I got your message

All right

I’m counting on I see you out tonight

It’s automatic

Let’s make a move

I’m talking ’bout the see you ‘cross the room

Like you got a little something to say

‘Cause I can speak your body language, yeah yeah

I can get fluent in your movement

Baby, let me prove it yeah

[upbeat bluegrass music]

It’s getting warmer

I never learn Never never

If we don’t take it easy, watch it burn

And now we’re past it

We’re all alone

We’re gonna make a language of our own

‘Cause I can speak your body language

Yeah yeah

I can get fluent in your movement

Baby let me prove it yeah, yeah

Oh!

I can see it in your eyes

Feel you running up my spine

Everything you say is smooth

I think you’re saying that you might be mine

I gotta feeling that it might be time

To get between the lines

[upbeat bluegrass music]

Well, I can speak your body language, yeah yeah

I can speak your body language, yeah yeah

I can get fluent in your movement

Baby let me prove it, yeah

[upbeat bluegrass music]

[audience applauding and cheering]

Give it up for these boys over here.

[audience applauding and cheering]

Appleton is a very core part of my childhood and upbringing, and it’s my ancestral home. It’s just a wonderful town. I love it very much. [laughs] It’s really nice to be back.

Margot Jezerc has a new song that we’ve premiered here. We got it ready to play for this festival specifically, and it’s about her grandmother, who’s from Appleton. And it is so special and cool to be able to sing that for the people of Appleton and for her family.

[“Leftover Love” by Buffalo Rose]

Quilted jacket

I put my hand in the pocket

Crumpled napkin

Maybe from Rome, where you bought it

Held your body so many years, now it’s holding mine

It’s all a matter of time

[gentle folk music]

Knitted mittens

Cover my hands in the winter

Snowsuit and boots

Feels like so long since I’ve been her

Warm house, soft hands

Worth every hour we had to drive

Still wanna run inside

And I’m still writing letters to you

Knowing nothing’s gonna reach you

But what can I do?

With all this leftover love?

Farmer’s daughter

Eleven sisters and brothers

Sneaking peaches

Tossing the pits down the gutter

Some people change

As they get older, but never you

You’re always you

I don’t believe

There’s a whole lot that comes after

Just want to be

A song ringing out in the rafters

Now I find you

When I’m reading the paper or making pies

Or walking home on these quiet November nights

And I’m still writing letters to you

Knowing nothing’s gonna reach you

But what can I do?

With all this leftover love?

And I wish you could’ve seen

What I get to do up on the stage

You know, we’re playing in your hometown

In just a couple days

And I wish you could’ve met my dearest curly-headed boy

I think the two of you would’ve really gotten on

At least that’s what I tell you, because

I’m still writing letters to you

Knowing nothing’s gonna reach you

I’m still writing letters to you

But what can I do?

But what can I do?

But what can I do with all this leftover love?

[audience applauding and cheering]

That’s Margot Jezerc, everybody. Give it up.

[audience applauding and cheering]

Margot Jezerc: Thank you, I love all of my family sitting over here. So special to share it with you, I love you!

[“Born” by Buffalo Rose]

Meteor of mine

Something’s moving

Lay me down

On my ruin

Have Have my word

I’m giving up easy

I want a century of rain

I run and no one calls me

I was born but God gave me no name

Like the land I move so easy

How come there’s no word?

What I mean is

These mistakes of mine

All align

Tracing memory back too far

Awful question for a star

If we stop, we stop for sure

Hungry for more

I want a century of rain

I run and no one calls me

I was born but God gave me no name

Like the land I move so easy

Bruised and healing

[gentle bluegrass music]

[gentle bluegrass music]

I want a century of rain

I run and no one calls me

I was born but God gave me no name

Like the land I move so easy

I want a century of rain

I run and no one calls me

I was born but God gave me no name

Like the land I move so easy

Bruised and healing

[audience applauding and cheering]

Thank you, thank you, thank you Appleton!

[audience applauding and cheering]

Margot Jezerc: You good?

Lucy Clabby: Oh, man.

One, two, three.

[“Not Today” by Buffalo Rose]

I’ve had my eye on you for a little while

For some time now

Hmm hmm hmm

I like all the little things you do

I like your smile

Like how you dress when I see you downtown

Oh, when I see you around

I don’t want to be the one to make it weird

Between you and I

So baby I

Keep it to myself and I stay over here

And you stay over there

And it’s so unfair, ’cause

You been keeping me awake at night

I don’t know what I wanna do about it

You’ve got me reeling

So high I’m on the ceiling

But I won’t let it take me where it’s gonna go

And one of these days I gotta let you know

There’s something I want to say

Oh, but not today

Now that I’ve come around, now that I’ve found

This dangerous truth

In my head I’m making plans, I’m shaking hands

With tomorrow night

Oh, baby, I don’t wanna be right

I don’t want to be the one to make it weird

Between you and I

So baby I

Keep it to myself and I stay over here

And you stay over there

And it’s so unfair, ’cause

You been keeping me awake at night

I don’t know what I wanna do about it

You got me reeling

So high I’m on the ceiling

But I won’t let it take me where it’s gonna go

And one of these days I gotta let you know

There’s something I want to say

Oh, but not today

[audience applauding and cheering]

Thanks, y’all.