The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108622   Message #2277466
Posted By: Stringsinger
02-Mar-08 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Away, Away with Rum, by Gum
Subject: RE: Origin - Away away with rum
The song was popular in the folk coffee houses and clubs in the Fifties. The Limelighters did a version of it. Bud and Travis and many others at the time. Barbara Dane did her version of it and I think so did the Chad Mitchell Trio.

There were many rewrites from the early Temperance Union song.

Frank Hamilton