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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-
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.