"Louisville 1910" - NO KINGS DAY pre-release single - Nancy K Dillon | Performing Songwriter

"Louisville 1910" - NO KINGS DAY pre-release single

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Louisville 1910 was written on Father’s Day 2014 and is dedicated to my father, Dr. Robert Morris Dillon aka Bob Dillon with love, admiration and affection. Dad passed away on Fathers Day in 2008 and is buried just outside the town of Louisville in the beautiful foothills of Colorado - he is greatly missed xx

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Louisville 1910 ©Nancy K Dillon

[Note: The Colorado Louisville is pronounced "Lewis-ville" unlike the Kentucky Louisville :-).]

1) It was 1910 in the 10 Days War

Colorado winter blowin’ in their door

Silver bullets – red blood – white snow

She lost her man before the winter snows…..were o’er

2) He was born without a compass or a need to be saved

Within the sound of Freedom’s name

Running on empty all the way to the grave

Listening to the whistle of the train

CHO: And the church bells rang as we walked those hills

Among the stones - the angels fallen to the ground

It’s a long long way to Louisville

It’s there my father can be found

3) Fighting for the right to choose how to believe

The guns ring out – the people bleed

No King shall rule – no Queen conceive

Until there’s no more children we can’t feed

CHO: And the church bells rang as we walked those hills

Among the stones - the angels fallen to the ground

It’s a long long way to Louisville

It’s there my father can be found.

3) In the Colorado Coal Fields, the men left the mines

They came above to strike - to fight

Hundreds of them slaughtered by the CF&I

Just for tryin’ to make conditions right

CHO: And the church bells rang as we walked those hills

Among the stones - the angels fallen to the ground

It’s a long long way to Louisville

It’s there my father can be found.

And the church bells rang as we walked those hills

Among the stones - the angels fallen to the ground

The train’s last stop’s in Louisville…..

It’s there my father can be found.

[Louisville 1910 was written on Father’s Day 2014 and is dedicated to my father, Dr. Robert Morris Dillon aka Bob Dillon with love, admiration and affection. Dad passed away on Fathers Day in 2008 and is buried just outside the town of Louisville in the beautiful foothills of Colorado - he is greatly missed xx]

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released June 14, 2025

Personnel:

Nancy K Dillon - Acoustic guitar & vocals

Wes Weddell - Mandolin

Danny Barnes - Banjo

Gavin Sutherland - Bass

Steve Smith - Harmony vocal

Paul Pearcy - Percussion

Recorded at Garey Shelton Studio (USA), Gavin Sutherland Studio (Scotland), The Cave (Las Cruces, NM) & Kitchen Sink Studio (Santa Fe, NM)

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