"Brother Green" Performance
Added 2019-10-31 01:15:09 +0000 UTCf# D F# A D (relative). I learned this song from a recording of Buell Kazee of Magoffin County, Kentucky. Buell played it in standard tuning. The only other person I've watched play it up close was Matt Kinman who used gCGCD. After trying both tunings, I settled on my own arrangement in "Reuben" tuning.
Instrument is a 1999 George Wunderlich copy of an 1840s banjo by William Boucher. Maple neck, bent oak rim, handmade hardware, gut/nylon strings, pine bridge, plastic head.
O brother Green come kneel by me
For I am shot and bleeding,
Stay brother stay lay me away
And write my wife a letter.
The Southern foe has laid me low
On this cold ground to suffer,
Now I must die no more to see
My wife and my dear children.
Go tell my wife she must not grieve
Go kiss my dearest children,
For they will call for me in vain
When I am gone to Heaven.
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