Bluegrass wedding songs

Subject: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: AnneMC
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 05:39 AM

Can anyone suggest some bluegrass songs for a simple wedding service for an informal second marriage.
Thanks,
Anne

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: Gern
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 09:44 AM

I guess the standard cheating songs are out, which eliminates quite a few. How about "Married by the Bible, Divorced by the Law?" Seriously, some old country love standards work well in bluegrass weddings: try "I Love You Because" or "Have I Told You Lately that I Love You."

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 12:48 PM

Other sngs that come to mind:

I Traced Her Little Footsteps in the Snow

Rain & Snow

Poor Little Ellen

Wild Bill Jones

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: Once Famous
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 01:38 PM

Long Black Veil

Ha Ha!

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: Eve Goldberg
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 03:15 PM

Well, one we almost used was a song by Laurie Lewis called "Love Chooses You." It's a beautiful love song.

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 03:32 PM

Home-Made Love is a sure winner for your purposes.

A

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: GUEST,Vectis
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 07:02 PM

How about 'they're burning down the house I was brung up in' if one of them changes their mind?
Only Kidding

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: GUEST,Steve
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 09:59 PM

Before I Met You is a beautiful song, unless ya do it the way Lester & Earl did it. That sounds like a march

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: Mark Clark
Date: 27 Jun 04 - 11:19 PM

We used to do I've Got A Never-ending Love For You on occasions such as anniversaries and weddings. There is a great bluegrass arrangement of the tune that includes a dramatic full stop and a measure (four groups of four notes each) of chromatic ascending banjo in the bridge.

      - Mark

Never Ending Love

by Delaney Bramlett
performed by Delaney and Bonnie and Friends

I've got a never-ending love for you
From now on that's all I want to do
From the first time we met I knew
I'd have a never-ending love for you

I've got a never-ending love for you
From now on that's all I want to do
From the first time we met I knew
I'd have a never-ending love for you

  (bridge)
After all this time of bein' alone
We can love one another, give for each other
From now on
It's so good I can hardly stand it (full stop and banjo riff)
Never-ending love for you
From now on that's all I want to do
From the first time we met I knew
I'd sing my never-ending song of love for you

After all this time of bein' alone
We can love one another, live for each other
From now on
It's so good I can hardly stand it (full stop and banjo riff)

Never-ending love for you
From now on that's al I want to do
From the first time we met I knew
I'd sing my never-ending song of love for you
I've got a never-ending love for you

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: GUEST,Bex McK
Date: 28 Jun 04 - 08:22 AM

"My Dear Someone" (as seen on Down from the Mountain) by Gillian Welch/David Rawlings is a fantatic old fashioned love song.

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: GUEST,Sid Gilbert
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 05:51 PM

I traced her little footprints in the snow is nice ,but I don't know how it would be for a Wedding song.I'm going to check Jimmy Martin's songs.

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: GUEST,Sid Gilbert
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 06:28 PM

I'll be loving you might do .after this I know why I grew up depressed in the Appalachians,not many happy love songs.If your not from the area remember to pronounce it Appa Latch ians

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: gillymor
Date: 12 Feb 17 - 09:00 PM

The OP is from June of '04 but I will recommend "Good Woman's Love".

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: Felipa
Date: 13 Feb 17 - 06:28 AM

more country than bluegrass, "you're my best friend" as sung by Don Williams, though it sort of jumps the gun if the couple dont already have children:
"You're My Best Friend"

You placed gold on my finger
You brought love like I've never known
You gave life to our children
And to me a reason to go on.

You're my bread when I'm hungry
You're my shelter from troubled winds
You're my anchor in life's ocean
But most of all you're my best friend.

When I need hope and inspiration
You're always strong when I'm tired and weak
I could search This whole world over
You'll still be everything that I need.

You're my bread when I'm hungry
You're my shelter from troubled winds
You're my anchor in life's ocean
But most of all you're my best friend.

You're my bread when I'm hungry
You're my shelter from troubled winds
You're my anchor in life's ocean
But most of all you're my best friend...

----
I attended a wedding where the band played the Tennessee Waltz; thankfully no-one sang the lyrics.

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Feb 17 - 07:27 AM

Roseville Fair!

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: gillymor
Date: 13 Feb 17 - 02:13 PM

Herb Pedersen's beautiful "Wait a Minute" might work. It's kind of hard to think of love songs written by Bluegrass artists because it seems most are of the cheatin' or lost love variety.
Stanley Brother's "How Mountain Girls Can Love" might go over at the reception.

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: GUEST,Jerry Crossley
Date: 13 Feb 17 - 05:30 PM

Til the End of the World Runs Round (I'll keep on loving you) by Flatt and Scruggs surely?

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: gillymor
Date: 13 Feb 17 - 08:19 PM

Right, Jerry and speaking of Flatt and Scruggs their cover of the Carter Family's "You Are My Flower" might do.

Subject: RE: Bluegrass wedding songs
From: Thompson
Date: 14 Feb 17 - 02:30 AM

You could also avoid the one with the lyric

Yonder stands my own true love
And she's all dressed in red
And she's the darling of my heart
And I wish my wife was dead.

I was going to suggest You Are My Sunshine but looking at the lyrics it's pretty cloudy too! In fact, bluegrass songs generally are a downer, though tunefully so.