“They’re at Rest Together,” also known as “They Sleep Together Now at Rest,” is an older song that the Country Gentlemen recorded in the early 1960s, helping bring it to bluegrass audiences.
The song is an elegy for two people — sweethearts, or a married couple — who have both died and now lie buried side by side. Where life parted them, death has joined them, and the lyric finds a sad consolation in the thought of the two at rest together.
Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, among the first women to record bluegrass under their own names, took the song into their repertoire. The version heard here is by Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard.
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