Banks of the Mobile by Jed Marum

There are times when you just want to share a good song, and I think Jed would have wanted me to.


This song is another of his War Between the States songs.  From the liner notes:



A young Scottish born girl grows up in Montreal, Canada and in Mobile, Alabama and matures into a devout Christian "Southern Lady" with strong Scottish roots.  During the US Civil War, she supports her adopted homeland by working as a battlefront nurse.  This song was inspired by her courage in facing this terrible duty (work "no lady ought to endeavor,") and by her diary, "Kate Cumming: A Confederate Nurse."  Kate spent much of her time during the war helping the mortally wounded of both armies make their final peace and prepare for death.  She returned home after the war and died many years later, unmarried, at the age of 76.  This song pictures her last moments in her beloved Mobile, among the many young men she so lovingly attended.



The song is beautiful and I have long loved it, but Jed's explanation makes it all the more poignant.