How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: You Can Tell The World – Click To Play A great old Spiritual I first heard from Bob Gibson and Bob Camp. It’s been recorded by many folk groups. [G]You Can Tell The World about this [C]You Can Tell The nations about [G]that Tell em what the [C] […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: A Long Time Ago – Click To Play A Long Time Ago (AKA Noah’s Ark) is a halyard chantey, collected by Cecil Sharp on the 3rd June,1914 from Capt. Hole, of Watchet, Somerset England. I love how Noah put the dog to work plugging up the hole and […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Johnson Boys – Click To Play This is a traditional bluegrass song. Lyrics: Johnson Boys [G] Johnson boys [C] raised in the [G] ashes Didn’t know how to court [D7] a maid [G] Turn their backs and [C] hide their [G] faces Sight of a pretty girl [D7] […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Betty and Dupree – Click To Play “Betty and Dupree” Is a traditional blues that has been recorded by many artists including Peter Paul and Mary. They have all registered their interpretation with BMI as a new work derived from an old one. Bob Gibson and Bob Camp […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: While Shepherds Watched – Click To Play “While Shepherds Watched” was composed in 1703 by Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady. The melody was taken from “Siroe,” an opera by George Frederick Handel. This was the first paraphrased psalm allowed to be sung in the Anglican Church. An amusing […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: I Know You Rider – Click To Play A great old traditional blues originally called “Blue Woman” recorded in a prison, sung by an 18 year old woman who was serving life for murder. I played this on my Martin D-45. The Byrds recorded this song in 1966 […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Will The Circle Be Unbroken – Click To Play This is a hymn written in 1907 by Ada R. Habershon with music by Charles H. Gabriel. There is a later version written by the Carter family used as a funeral hymn. I remember singing that version at the […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Buffalo Boy – Click To Play This is an Appalachian courting song I learned at the Old Town School of Folk Music in 1957 Lyrics: [E] When are we going to get married [B7] Get married, [E] get married When are we going to get married [B7] My […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: KumBaYa – Click To Play KumBaYa is a spiritual that originated in Angola. It means Come By Hear Lord. Lyrics: [G] Kum Ba Ya my Lord [C] Kum Ba [G]Ya [G] Kum Ba Ya my Lord [Am] Kum Ba [D]Ya [G] Kum Ba Ya my Lord [C] Kum […]

How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: OleAnna – Click To Play Oleanna was a utopian experiment envisioned by violin virtuoso Ole Bull in the nineteenth century. He was very wealthy and purchased over 11,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania to form a perfect society. It didn’t work out so he returned to performing concerts. […]