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Thread #82399   Message #1513248
Posted By: GUEST,Bob Coltman
30-Jun-05 - 08:53 AM
Thread Name: Looking for Farm Songs
Subject: RE: Looking for Farm Songs
"The Honest Farmer" and "Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All" by Fiddlin' John Carson.
"The Bell Cow" -- New Lost City Ramblers do this and others.
Check out any source of U.S. old time & folk music for great songs of the south and west. The Lomaxes collected such as "Starving to Death on a Government Claim," "Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn," "Whoa, Buck," Leadbelly's "Pick a Bale of Cotton," "State of Arkansas."
There's a great Irish farm-labor song, "Rocks of Baun" and many more about potato farming.
That's only scratching the surface, pardon the pun. There are just a slew of such songs! Consult any folk music collection.