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“With Body and Soul” was written by Virginia Stauffer, one of the few women whose songs Bill Monroe recorded. Monroe cut it in the late 1960s, and it appeared on one of his albums of that era.
The song is a love song of complete devotion. The singer gives himself to the one he loves with body and soul, holding nothing back; the phrase of the title is both a promise and a measure of how fully he means it.
The song’s standing has grown over the years, and Monroe later performed it as a duet with Waylon Jennings. The version heard here is by Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys.
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