I heard Mike Seeger perform a Carter Family song on the autoharp the other night which he has not recorded, but I didn't get the title. I heard this song maybe 25-30 years ago on the autoharp and I'm thinking it was girl harmonies, maybe from a duo like Kathy and Carol. Maybe. It starts out "He was just a blue-eyed soldier boy.." and relays the request of a young man to a friend in battle that whoever dies first, should tell the other's mother. It goes something like: "But if I should die and you return, will you do the same for me? My mother I know is sitting at home, she'll wait for me patiently." (Or something like that). And it has the phrase, "I'll Do your bidding if you please," that goes before that. Wish I'd stayed and asked more about the song, because I have always loved it, and it seems like a rarer one among the Carter Family songs (maybe just a Maybelle song?)
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