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Thread #37081   Message #516746
Posted By: Joe Offer
28-Jul-01 - 03:30 PM
Thread Name: Dangerous Songs?
Subject: ADD: Going Across the Mountain (Proffitt)^^
Here is the list of songs from Seeger's Dangerous Songs CD. It's quite an interesting collection. I wonder how many we have posted in the database or the forum. I'll mark the ones I found in the DT. I found only one in the Forum. I'm ake the ones I can't find bold.
-Joe Offer-
  1. Medley: Robin The Bobbin/Mary, Mary Quite Contrary/Little Jack Horner
  2. Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Kevess)(DT)
  3. Jackaro also (click) (DT)
  4. Never Wed An Old Man (Abbott)(DT - traditional version)
  5. John Brown's Body (DT)
  6. Going Across The Mountains (Proffitt)(posted below)
  7. Harry Simms (Garland) (DT)
  8. King Henry (Seeger) (DT King Henry may not be not this one, but an alternate posted below)
  9. Medley: Ode To Joy/Goliath, Goliath (posted below)(Seeger/Beethoven)
  10. Queen Anne Front (Schmertz)(posted below)
  11. Joe Hill's 'Casey Jones' (DT)
  12. One Grain Of Sand (Seeger) (DT)
  13. The Pill (McGinn) (DT)
  14. The Draft Dodger Rag (Ochs)(DT)
  15. Mao Tse Tung (Not sure if DT Mickey Mouse Parody or not) (hey, click here for a good one)
  16. Walking Down Death Row (Seeger) (below)
  17. Two From Shakespeare: Full Fathom Five/Perchance To Win (Seeger)
  18. Beans In My Ears (Chandler)
  19. Equinoxial (posted below)
  20. Joe Hill's 'Casey Jones' (Alternate With Guitar) (DT)
  21. What Next? (Chandler)

GOING ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN

Going across the mountain,
Oh, fare you well;
Going across the mountain,
You can hear my banjo tell.

Got my rations on my back,
My powder it is dry;
I'm a-goin' across the mountain,
Chrissie, don't you cry.

Going across the mountain,
To join the boys in blue;
When this war is over,
I'll come back to you.

Going across the mountain,
If I have to crawl,
To give old Jeff's men
A little of my rifle ball.

Way before it's good daylight,
If nothing happens to me,
I'll be way down yander
In old Tennessee.

I expect you'll miss me when I'm gone,
But I'm going through;
When this war is over,
I'll come back to you.

Going across the mountain,
Oh, fare you well;
Going across the mountain,
Oh, fare you well.

(As sung by Frank Proffitt on the album "Frank Proffitt of Reese, North Carolina," Folk-Legacy CD). Frank's grandfather, a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln, chose to "go across the mountain to join the boys in blue" and fight against the Confederacy.

@America @Civil @war @Confederate
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JRO
Oct01

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