It’s the place where Molly Mason and I have run the Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps for adults and families since 1980. Ashokan Farewell Lyrics: The sun is sinking low in the sky above Ashokan / The pines and the willows know soon we will part / There's a whisper in the wind of promises unspoken / And a love that will Ashokan is the name of a town, most of which is now under a very beautiful and magical body of water called the Ashokan Reservoir. Ashokan Farewell was named for Ashokan, a camp in the Catskill Mountains not far from Woodstock, New York.