"Last Gold Dollar" (Mole In the Ground) Lesson
Added 2020-12-18 17:00:04 +0000 UTCgCGCD relative (fB♭FB♭C actual). I learned "Last Gold Dollar" (Mole In the Ground) from George Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky. Gibson learned it from Orgus "Grandpa" Hudson, a prolific banjo songster born in 1911.
Hudson was known as Gran or Grandpa from a very early age, and it's not known how he acquired the nickname. George once tried to mail a banjo to him via the local post office, but even they had no knowledge of an Orgus Hudson in the area--they only knew him as "Gran" Hudson.
Dock Boggs recorded an outstanding three-finger version in 1927 under the title "Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long" for Brunswick Records.
My last gold dollar's gone (x2)
My board bill's due my whiskey bill too
And my last gold dollar's gone.
She's a darling little girl I know (x2)
She's coming down the stairs combing back her curly hair
She's a darling little girl I know
My darling when I had you I laced up the shoes you wear
But now I'm bound in the walls of jail
Your little feet must go bare
She's dodging from the frost and snow (x2)
Her little feet are bare 'cause she has no shoes to wear
She's dodging from the frost and snow
My darling six months ain't long (x2)
Six months ain't long for me to be gone
My darling six months ain't long
I'm going to the West next fall (x2)
I may do well and I may catch Hell
But I'm going to the West next fall
Comments
would be good to make a playlist with list of lessons from George Gibson. He is great.
Theodore Polikovskiy
2021-11-19 20:43:12 +0000 UTCYou are just plain good at that banjo..some day you will be a legend just like George.
Fred Nawrot
2020-12-21 20:27:05 +0000 UTC
