"I'm Dying, Mother" Performance (Two Finger)
Added 2022-04-22 15:00:07 +0000 UTCI learned "I'm Dying, Mother" from a recording of Bert Hare. My instrument is a 1940s Bacon "Belmont" banjo (made by Gretsch) tuned ~ fDGCD.
One summer eve as the sun was setting
The wind blew soft and cold,
A young man lay on a bed of fever
And the tears stood in his eyes.
I'm dying mother I'm surely dying
And Hell is my awful doom,
Come take my hand and
Press it tight for my heart is sad with gloom.
The other night as I left the meeting
The Spirit bid me pray,
I said, "Not tonight but next week only
I must go and dance with the gay."
After this I'll get converted
And lead a Christian life,
But alas too late I've seen the folly
Of staying not tonight.
Mother dear go tell my comrades
Not to do as I have done,
When the Spirit calls do not reject Him
Or put Him off in fun.
Comments
Glad to hear it, Dean.
Clifton Hicks
2022-05-23 19:37:28 +0000 UTCClifton, Thanks, not sure how I missed it but I have been having some health problems since latel fall. Getting better now doing lessons again
Dean Schober
2022-05-21 22:20:57 +0000 UTCDean, the lesson & tab are available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/im-dying-mother-42598034 Or email me directly with any tab requests: clifhicks@gmail.com
Clifton Hicks
2022-05-21 17:54:35 +0000 UTCI love that song, id like to find tab for it, so i could play it
Dean Schober
2022-05-20 22:53:39 +0000 UTCBeen hoping he would do that song for a while now!
Chance Gordon
2022-05-07 16:18:55 +0000 UTCClifton, have you thought about doing another member voting on what your next songs will be for patreon? I would love to see you do a verson of Ralph Stanley black eyed Susie. I really like your spin on songs.
josh waller
2022-04-23 21:53:47 +0000 UTCgreat job Clifton. As the song states, we all should contemplate our earthly existence and what awaits us at death and prepare.
josh waller
2022-04-23 21:52:37 +0000 UTCGlad you are less fucked up now!
Clifton Hicks
2022-04-22 18:55:27 +0000 UTCWonderfully performed - as true as truth can ever be, especially considering the useless murder going on right now in Ukraine. Even as I grow older, no matter how hard I think about it, I have never been able to comprehend how the soldiers in our Civil War could march to the firing line without a certainty of belief in a life after death. Hard times...
Bob Roberts
2022-04-22 15:19:14 +0000 UTCBeautiful performance Clif; lines from this song have become an in joke with me and some of the guys I work with part time at a motorcycle shop. Haha. Hope all is well; I think I’d told you last year about the health problems I been dealing with. Finally starting to get healthy enough to be back in my shop building furniture… just not as long as I’d like to each day. Hope all is well with you and yours, and thanks for sharing this. Always makes my morning to see an update from you.
Cory Warner
2022-04-22 15:18:17 +0000 UTC
