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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Swanno Mountain? From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Date: 20 Oct 06 - 09:57 AM Holcomb's version is a brief survival of the earlier "Swannanoa Tunnel" / "Swannanoa Town," now verging on a century old. Check out version by Bascom Lamar Lunsford (Folkways), the first to be sung widely in the folk community. Dulcimer singer and scholar Artus Moser also did a version. It's one of the older hammer songs. Appears in Cecil Sharp's English Folk Songs From the Southern Appalachians V2, 42-3 as "Swannanoa Town" in two versions, one from Black Mt. NC, the other from Micaville NC, both sung by women, collected in 1916 and 1918 respectively. |
Subject: Lyr Add: SWANNO MOUNTAIN (Roscoe Holcomb) From: 12-stringer Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:23 PM I'm going back to the Swanno Mountain Lordy that's my home, baby, that's my home. Got sixteen brackets on my banjo Lord it rings like silver, baby, shines like gold. I got a letter from my woman Lordy she's gone blind, baby, she can't see. repeat verse 1 I got a letter from my captain Lordy he's in jail, baby, he's in jail. repeat verse 1 Lyrics from the note booklet in the vinyl edition. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Swanno Mountain? From: nickp Date: 19 Oct 06 - 02:20 PM The Swannanoa Mountain range, overlooks the Swannanoa Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Swanno Mountain? From: Big Mick Date: 18 Oct 06 - 06:39 PM OH ..... MY ..... GAWD ......... SPAW ....... SWANNO MOUNTAIN???????? We have got to do something with this. Mick |
Subject: Lyr Req: Swanno Mountain? From: GUEST,C Date: 18 Oct 06 - 06:34 PM I can't figure out exactly what the hell Roscoe Holcomb is saying in Swanno Mountain. Want to sing it, but I don't mumble as good as him. I tried looking online, but...no dice. Apparently the lyrics are in the liner notes to the comp "Untamed sense of control" If you have it, can you post the lyrics please? |
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