Calexico & Iron & Wine
Calexico & Iron & Wine
Calexico & Iron & Wine
Calexico & Iron & Wine
Calexico & Iron & Wine
Calexico & Iron & Wine
Calexico & Iron & Wine
Calexico & Iron & Wine
A touching posthumous goodbye rounds out Calexico and Iron & Wine’s collaborative EP, as Sam Beam whispers away meaningful belongings and looks back on life with some pain-stricken regret.
“Dead Man’s Will” made an appearance in season one of NBC’s Friday Night Lights.
[Verse 1]
Give this stone to my brother
'Cause we found it playing
In the barnyard many years ago
Give this bone to my father
He'll remember hunting in the hills
When I was ten years old
[Chorus]
May my love reach you all
I locked it in myself and buried it too long
Now that I've come to fall
Please say it's not too late
Now that I'm dead and gone
[Verse 2]
Give this string to my mother
It pulled the baby teeth
She keeps inside the drawer
Give this ring to my lover
I was scared and stupid not to ask
For her hand long before
[Chorus]
May my love reach you all
I lost it in myself and buried it too long
Now that I've come to fall
Please say it's not too late
Now that I'm dead and gone
Dead Man’s Will was written by Sam Beam.
Calexico & Iron & Wine released Dead Man’s Will on Wed Sep 12 2007.
While the version of “Dead Man’s Will” released with Calexico’s backing achieved the most notoriety, Iron & Wine had already released the song independently on Yeti Publishing’s Yeti One, a compilation album. He spoke of the recognition he got from that version of the track in an interview:
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