SONG: "Thy Will Be Done" - by Charlotte Elliott With Terry Tucker

Описание: Performed, arranged, and interpreted by Terry Tucker

Video by Jim Surkamp

When cavalrymen knocked on the front door of her parents’ home outside Shepherdstown in July, 1864, “Tippie” Boteler nearly fainted. But she collected herself. Minutes later when the home began to burn and the roses hanging over the second floor balcony were withering in the intense inferno, she suddenly ran back into the house opened her piano - pushed away the soldiers and played one song - this one. The flames growing too great she snatched her guitar and joined her sister, her three little children and servant Margaret Bunkins on a side hill. They could hear the piano strings popping the in flames.

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