Pete Seeger - Barbara Allen mp3 download

of all the pete seeger tunes I have, this is my fav. great 12 string

Artsy farsty communist old coot.

How different are there so many versions to this poem and song. I read one of the earlier poem versions entitled the cruelty of Barbra Allen. In that version there is no briar, no lovers knot, etc. It merely ends with the last canto with her saying, Mother come dig my grave, make it long and narrow, as I will die tomorrow.

Good singer. Too bad he was a committed Communist who supported the mass murderer Joseph Stalin. And when Stalin was allied briefly with Hitler after they divided up Poland Seeger supported both.

one if the rare versions where the melody can actually be heard. Its a simple tune. It ought to be allowed to stay that way and not many singers manage that.

double ghod partly get what you mean def baez but seeger is the nearest thing to guthrie senior how to deliver a song without warbling like a banshee or holding a note for no reason just because they can

Pete would have been 100 years old on May 3rd, 2019. The inventor of the long neck banjo, the savior of the Hudson River, at 94 he was the oldest artist ever to be nominated for a Grammy Award. Samuel Pepys, the famous English diarist wrote about hearing a performance of this song at a New Years party in London, the year was 1666.