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{{Infobox album
| name       = The Song They Sang... When Rome Fell
| type       = Album
| artist     = [[Anaïs Mitchell]]
| cover      = Songsangwhenromefell.jpg
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| released   = 2002
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| genre      = [[folk music|Folk]], [[Indie folk]]
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| next_title = [[Hymns for the Exiled]]
| next_year  = 2004
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'''''The Song They Sang... When Rome Fell''''' is the 2002 debut release by Vermont-based American singer-songwriter [[Anaïs Mitchell]]. The album was made during the singer's 6-month stay in [[Austin, Texas]], and was recorded in a single afternoon.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://wtop.com/entertainment/2022/02/hadestown-creator-anais-mitchell-performs-with-bonny-light-horseman-at-strathmore/ | title='Hadestown' creator Anaïs Mitchell performs with Bonny Light Horseman at Strathmore| date=9 February 2022| accessdate=2022-04-22 | publisher=[[WTOP-FM]]}}</ref> It consists of Mitchell playing her acoustic guitar and singing with sparse production.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wearsthetrousers.com/2007/11/words-in-edgeways-with-anais-mitchell/ |title=words in edgeways with anaïs mitchell |accessdate=2012-10-21 |publisher=Wears the Trousers |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917105457/http://www.wearsthetrousers.com/2007/11/words-in-edgeways-with-anais-mitchell/ |archivedate=2011-09-17 }}</ref> The record is currently out of print<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.reformer.com/local-news/anais-mitchell-bethanie-yeakle-share-hooker-dunham-stage/article_e4d51e39-4eb4-5d85-b8af-765dd4e1d61c.html| title=Anais Mitchell, Bethanie Yeakle share Hooker-Dunham stage| date=15 March 2007| accessdate=2022-04-22 | publisher=[[Brattleboro Reformer]]}}</ref> and is not referenced among the rest of Mitchell's albums on her site's discography section.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.anaismitchell.com/records | accessdate=2022-04-22 | title=Anais Mitchell, Records}}
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== Track listing ==
# The Calling
# Parking Lot Nudie Bar
# Make It Up
# Hymn For The Exiled
# Work Makes Free
# Deliberately
# The Routine
# Orleanna
# The Song They Sang When Rome Fell
# Hold This
# Go Fuck Yourself <ref>The last track is a "bonus track" of sorts and was recorded before a live audience at Mitchell's alma mater, [[Middlebury College]]</ref>

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