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Bud Savoie oxen ploughing songs (32) RE: oxen ploughing songs 21 Mar 00

Yep, the Birch Grove Singers did "Ox Driver's Song" on their (our) Wand record, now a collector's item. Pete Seeger did it on one of his two Folkways Frontier Ballads albums. And then there were Odetta, the Modern Folk Quartet, and the Brothers Four, depending on how desperate you are.

I have read from a reliable source that farmers used to sing Psalms to their oxen when plowing (for words but not music check your Bible), which might have cut down on the swearing just a bit.

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