Whar Did You Cum From.wmv

Comment by Carl Anderton on April 4, 2011 at 5:49am

Big Sweeney hit that nobody ever plays anymore.

 

Comment by Ian Bell on April 4, 2011 at 6:52am

That's a dandy song.

The late, great John Hartford incorporated the first couple of lines of this (which may have been a folk lyric even back in the 1840s) into his song "Up On the Hill Where They Do The Boogie". In that song, he changes the word that Tim sings as "fella" into "hippie". Hartford also does this in his version of the old song "Where the Old Red River Flows".... "you can hear the hippies singing soft and low.  - a brilliant solution for keeping old songs alive in the late 20th century. Obviously it doesn't work in a "period music" context, but I  think, in a strange way it conveys the spirit of the original sentiment. Thanks for giving us something to talk about at breakfast, Tim!

 

Comment by Steve Jeter on April 4, 2011 at 8:28am

 Cool tune, Its way too far in the deep end of the pool for me ,,, but maybe someday. Thats old time.

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