"Ruby Ridge" by Peter Rowan
Added 2022-07-03 22:31:36 +0000 UTCI learned "Ruby Ridge" by Peter Rowan from his 1996 album, Bluegrass Boy.
My instrument is an 1886 Buckbee archtop banjo tuned fCFAC ~ gDGBD. Lesson & tab coming soon!
I'll tell you a story not long ago
High on a mountain in Idaho,
In Idaho I was living free
Until I sold a shotgun to a deputy.
CHORUS
Don't shoot me down!
Don't shoot me down!
I got a wife and kids on Ruby Ridge
Please don't shoot me down!
They killed my dog they killed my boy
My only son my pride and joy,
They killed my wife dead on the floor
Holding our baby by the cabin door.
If you take a notion and you want to go
High on a mountain in Idaho,
In Idaho you'll be living free
But don't sell no shotguns to the deputies.
"U.S. Marshals encountered Harris, along with Weaver's 14-year-old son Sammy, in woods near the family cabin. A shootout took place. Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan, Sammy Weaver, and the Weavers' dog Striker all died as a result. In the subsequent FBI-led siege of the Weaver residence, Weaver's wife Vicki was killed by FBI snipers... Harris surrendered and was arrested on August 30, while Weaver and his three daughters surrendered the next day...
"Both the Weaver family and Harris brought civil suits against the U.S. government. The Weavers won a combined settlement in 1995 of $3.1 million. Harris was awarded a $380,000 settlement in 2000."
Comments
Government officials assassinated a man's entire family and the tax payer had to pay the settlement
Adolf Shitler
2024-10-23 02:04:08 +0000 UTCBaron, fCFAC is closer to the actual tuning. WHOOPS.
Clifton Hicks
2023-06-15 15:39:05 +0000 UTCHi Clifton, I am a new banjo player - when I read this post it says you tuned your banjo to fCFAD for this video, correct? I am using a 5-string nylon Recording King.
Baron S. Marsh
2023-06-01 20:22:31 +0000 UTCNice sunglasses, though I think your "patriot" costume is less convincing than your old time costume.
s_ou_b
2022-07-05 22:41:02 +0000 UTCSame day I came with the comment it happens in denmark. I am heart broken. Did I ?
James Cassidy
2022-07-04 21:37:55 +0000 UTCIt's crazy isn't it? I still wouldn't choose to live anywhere else in the world, though. I am where I belong.
Clifton Hicks
2022-07-04 14:52:35 +0000 UTCSo many guns, so many tragedies in US. Good song. A friend from denmark.
James Cassidy
2022-07-04 05:02:48 +0000 UTCHistorical fact
John Frazier
2022-07-03 23:43:08 +0000 UTCWhat a tale!
Blaine Chappell
2022-07-03 23:18:32 +0000 UTC
