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Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: GUEST Date: 30 Nov 10 - 06:57 PM When my son was 16 he wrote a beauitful song about WV called "Mountians Roll On" you can here it at www.myspace.com/jedbayes. He is 20 now and is at Liberty Univ. in Lynchburg VA on a full scholorship. He playes the piano and has written several songs. He he studing Worship Music/songwriting. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: Susan of DT Date: 26 Mar 07 - 06:51 PM Yes, I was remembering the songbook correctly - Folksongs of Central West Virginia by Michael E. Bush. Four volumes of soft cover, spiral bound little books published in 1969. If Walking Eagle is still with us (or other interested people), PM me with your email and I'll send you scans of the tables of contents, if you are still interested. They seem to be versions of widely known songs that are not perculiar to WVa. Also, the University of West Virginia has some recordings out, available from CAMSCO. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: oldhippie Date: 26 Mar 07 - 05:45 PM "Goodbye To West Virginia", Bobby Ross - on his Voice of America CD. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: Barry Finn Date: 26 Mar 07 - 04:28 PM For a moment I saw this backwards as a VW & though songs about VolksWagons? Strange. Barry |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: Susan of DT Date: 26 Mar 07 - 04:26 PM 18 hits for [West Virginia} in the (updated) DT: ADIEUBON Adieu to Bon County SHILOHIL Battle of Shiloh Hill BATKANAW Battle Song of the Great Kanawha COCAINB4 Cocaine Blues (4) CNTRYRD Country Roads WHNCORT4 East Virginia Girls BARDOOR4 Get Up and Bar the Door (4) GRENROLL Green Rolling Hills PRINROB2 Harry Saunders HILLWVA Hills of West Virginia JOHNHARD John Hardy JOHNHENR John Henry 2 DIESTORM Lord, I don't Want to Die in the Storm MOLLMCG The Molly Maguires NNCYBRWN Nancy Brown PICKROBN Pick Poor Robin Clean PRCHRBR The Preacher and the Bear WVMINING West Virginia Mining Disaster I think I have a book as well; I'll check that later |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: GUEST,GUEST: peregrine Date: 26 Mar 07 - 12:28 PM There Ain't No Ash Will Burn (Not an old song, but quite a good one by a Nashville songwriter named Walt Aldridge. I've heard versions by Mollie O'Brien and by Laura Love and Jo Miller. Below is the way I heard it and learned it from the Laura Love Jo Miller CD, though I've seen slight variations in lyrics trasncribed by others. Another great West Virginia song is by Mollie's brother Tim O'Brien, called "A Mountaineer is Always Free," in which he does not specifically mention the state ... but that's the slogan on the official state seal. Mollie and Tim are from Wheeling, I believe.) I have seen snow that fell in May And I have seen rain on cloudless days Somethings are always bound to change There ain't no ash will burn Love is a precious thing I'm told It burns just like West Virginia coal But when the fire dies down it's cold There ain't no ash will burn You say this life is not your lot Well I can't be something that I'm not We can't stoke a fire that we ain't got There ain't no ash will burn In every life there comes a time When there are no more tears to cry We must leave something here behind There ain't no ash will burn There is one lesson I have learned There ain't no ash will burn |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: mg Date: 12 Mar 03 - 01:51 AM Is sending brownhaired Becky Richmond bound..is she originally from West Virginia? mg |
Subject: Lyr Add: NANCY BROWN From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 12 Mar 03 - 12:48 AM In the Hills of West Virginia lived a girl named Nancy Brown, And you never saw such beauty, in country or in town; Well, one day the village deacon was a-lookin' for a thrill So he took our little Nancy away up in them hills
cho 1: She came rollin' down the mountain
Well, along there came a trapper with his musket and his furs
cho 2: She came rollin' down the mountain (spoken) And that's no lie!
Well the next one was a cowboy, with his guitar and his song ,
cho 3: She came rollin' down the mountain (spoken) God damn!
Well along there came a slicker with his hundred-dollar bills
cho 4: Well she stayed up in the mountains,
Now she's livin' in the city, livin' in the city
Note: learned ca. 1946 on streets of Brooklyn. RG |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 12 Mar 03 - 12:41 AM You would be re-miss to not include Nancy Brown http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4177
It captures all the pure essence of everything WV.
Sincerely,
One of the earliest songs I ever performed "professionally" learned it from a Freep Broadside. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: Walking Eagle Date: 11 Mar 03 - 10:59 PM refresh |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: GUEST,jaze Date: 16 Oct 01 - 02:00 PM "Green Rolling Hills" written by Utah Phillips. I have it by Emmylou Harris on her Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town lp. Needless to say, she does it beautifully. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: masato sakurai Date: 16 Oct 01 - 01:32 PM A song where WV is sung in the lyrics is John Denver's "Country Roads," but probably this is not the one. Songs in John Harrington Cox, Folk-Songs of the South (1925; reprint Dover, 1967) were "Collected under the auspices of the West Virginia Folk-lore Society," but I think most of them are not specifically WV songs. On WV country music, see Ivan Tribe's Mountaineer Jumboree: Country Music in West Virginia (University Press of Kentucky, 1984). In the index, there are "West Virginia," "West Virginia Feud Song," "Hail, West Virginia," "When the Sun Sets in West Virginia," "West Virginia Hills," "West Virginia My Home" (I like this Hazel Dickens song), and so on. ~Masato |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: Gary T Date: 16 Oct 01 - 11:28 AM In the DT we have Arkansas Boys, along with a note about an earlier version using Virginia and Carolina instead of Missouri and Arkansas. I've seen several variations of this with different states and some different verses. I'm told that the Civil War inspired a version using Virginia and West Virginia. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: Allan C. Date: 16 Oct 01 - 11:26 AM Perhaps these could be among the ones you seek. Note that this is Volume I of two. Not all of the songs are from or about WV, but you might readily recognize that some are, such as The Beckley Rag (Frank Hutchison) and Explosion in the Fairmount Mines (Blind Alfred Reed). I presume you have already done a search by way of the DT/Forum Search. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: Mrrzy Date: 16 Oct 01 - 11:12 AM Misread the title, thought you were looking for VW songs! Isn't there one about the bug and another about the minibus? Otherwise, all I can think of is East Virginia, obviously not your desire. Will keep thinking. AllanC, any input? |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: WV songs specifically From: Bearheart Date: 16 Oct 01 - 11:10 AM You don't say what you've got so far-- I'd suggest that you contact FOOTMAD (Friends of Old-Time Music and Dance) in Charleston WV, they should be able to help. They havea website. If this doesn't work, I know somw folks in the organization who probably could. PM me and I'll try to hook you up... |
Subject: WV songs specifically From: Walking Eagle Date: 16 Oct 01 - 11:01 AM Hi, I'm trying to create an informal song book of folk songs that mention West Virginia in the title or the lyrics. I have quite a few, but I'm hoping that you 'catters can help me out a little with some that I may not be aware of. I would like older songs, but I'm not picky. Thanks, W.E. |
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