Warm My Feet and Cry

Warm My Feet And Cry (3:46) # (Mid-tempo, bluegrass, folk, roots) ISRC: QMEU32503248 | Valerie Smith and Donna Ulisse (Buckle Down Music Publishing /BMI) (Uncle Hadley Music/ASCAP) A heartfelt song about seeking solace amid hardship, inspired by my personal experience living in a family that gathered wood in the wintertime. I recall my grandparents having an old cast-iron stove in the family home’s kitchen, and trying to warm my hands after hauling wood. I could only imagine Maggie’s pain from the brutal winters of Missouri. I wrote the song with feelings of her great pain and sadness in a young life that seemed to present little hope for escape, according to my grandmother’s words.