"Bright, Sunny South" Performance (Dock Boggs)
Added 2022-02-18 12:58:37 +0000 UTCI learned "Bright Sunny South" from a 1960s recording of Dock Boggs of Wise County, Virginia. Other noteworthy versions have been recorded by Merle & doc Watson, and Alison Krauss & Dan Tyminski. Banjo is dropped two frets from ~ gDGCD.
In the bright sunny South in peace and content
The days of my boyhood I scarcely have spent,
From the deep flowing spring to the broad running stream
Ever dear to my memory and sweet in my dreams.
I will leave my confinement and comfort of life
For the dangers of bloodshed privation and strife,
I have come to conclose and reply with my word
As I shoulder my musket and billet my sword.
My father looked sad as he begged me to part
My mother embraced me with anguish of heart,
My beautiful sister looked pale in her woe
As she grabbed me and blessed me and told me to go.
Dear Father dear Father for me do not weep
For on some high mountain I mean for to sleep,
The dangers of war I intend for to share
For sickness and death I intend to prepare.
Dear Mother dear Mother for me do not weep
For a mother's kind voice I ever will keep,
You have taught me to be brave from a boy to a man
Now I'm going in defense of our own native land.
Dear Sister dear Sister I cannot tell the woe
Your tears and your sorrow they trouble me so,
But I must be a going for here I cannot stand
I am going in defense of our own native land.
Comments
"He's Coming to Us Dead" is one I learned from Matt Kinman, but I have never recorded it. So many songs; so little time.
Clifton Hicks
2022-02-22 20:19:45 +0000 UTCMan…a sad one. Inspired me to dig out “Someone Play Dixie for Me” and “He’s Coming to Us Dead”.
Bill Nagle
2022-02-22 13:36:53 +0000 UTCAbsolutely beautiful!
Jai Uttal
2022-02-21 18:00:27 +0000 UTCNow they sell their land to the Yankees. 😆😅😭
Clifton Hicks
2022-02-20 14:01:54 +0000 UTCThis is one of my favorite Doc Boggs tunes. Kids now a days have no idea what its like to defend your home land from yankees.
Texas Mopar
2022-02-20 02:57:45 +0000 UTCTwo-Finger Banjo for the Complete Beginner: https://youtu.be/dVWW9kQcuz8 Two-Finger Banjo Techniques: https://youtu.be/otSCZhiBZN4
Clifton Hicks
2022-02-19 16:23:38 +0000 UTCThis makes me want to get some two finger going! I play clawhammer. What is the two finger process? I don’t like tab…..
Bill Nagle
2022-02-19 14:59:44 +0000 UTCDid my best!
Clifton Hicks
2022-02-19 11:52:47 +0000 UTCWow, cliff, you really put a little extra into the singing on this one!
Mike Gager
2022-02-19 03:48:37 +0000 UTC👍👍 Such a soulful war era song of deep reflection. Thank you Clifton....very much enjoyed as always! That tuning puts the banjo's voice a bit on the dark edge, which in turn makes one really feel the lyrics more than just someone's story. Brilliant!
Jonas Siler
2022-02-18 21:28:49 +0000 UTCFantastic! Love that 2 finger arrangement.
Jim Ramser
2022-02-18 18:15:27 +0000 UTCIt certainly could be an older ballad referencing the Revolution, War of 1812, or one of the various Indian wars.
Clifton Hicks
2022-02-18 17:49:25 +0000 UTCCivil war or Revolutionary? The sword makes it feel old, maybe based on an older ballad, anyone know?
s_ou_b
2022-02-18 17:39:12 +0000 UTCYeah, it feels that way. When I was younger it used to really break me up.
Clifton Hicks
2022-02-18 16:29:08 +0000 UTCSeems like you could’ve written these words yourself, Clif
Matt Spears
2022-02-18 15:59:09 +0000 UTCThis was also the first 2 finger song I ever figured out
Matt Spears
2022-02-18 15:54:09 +0000 UTCOne of my favs from Dock and about first piece I ever tried to work out playing 2-finger style. Really good, Clif. Love the rolling feel you've added to the tune - I might have to rethink my own version!
Ted Crilly
2022-02-18 15:12:55 +0000 UTC
