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Farm Life Old Time Songs
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Farm Life Old Time SongsFolk music and songs are organic and often homemade. They sustained themselves because folks used to be naturally attracted to their contribution to non-electric music. That helps to explain why, since 1998, the farmer's market has been an appropriate space for them and why they were requested through a survey, in 2004, about how to increase the contributions made by the San Juan Island Farmers' Market. Traditionally folks songs arose from the expression of some musician's experiences, loves and frustrations. Over time, the natural attraction of people to the words and tunes made the song part of their lives and often helped folks live with better cheer and spirit. This attaction to the songs kept the songs alive and modified them for centuries. They were organic in that they were not commercially based or individually owned and they changed continually as a wide variety of folks learned, sang and adapted them to different ways, places and circumstances. Today, the commercialization electricification and impact of industrial society on music has all but eliminated the organic value and nature of the songs and their folk process. Perhaps they will find a home in the organic nature and contribution of growing food locally, so they may continue grow, too. This collection of farm songs is from my (Mike Cohen's) lifetime of love for, collecting and singing folk music and dances. Below is how they came to the this collection. Google their names for additional information and many variations of the songs and their words. I would be happy to do informal or formal presentations of these, and many other similar songs, from my collection. Call or email me to find out when and where I will be sharing these songs in San Juan Island presentations or if you want to sing along with me. (I do about 35 presentations every year for the National Park Service, private parties, Elderhostel, my Project NatureConnect program and fund raising events. 360-378-6313 Shucking The Corn: If remember correctly, I learned this song from singing with Howie Mitchell circa 1955, when I built a banjo for him. It's not to be mistaken with the banjo tune of the same name. This is evidently a one of its kind version that I, with the Shanty Boys, recorded for Electra in 1958. Could be I wrote the words then. The Farmer is the Man: I learned this from the singing of Lou Brown in 1946 at Camp Turkey Point, upstate New York. It started with the Populist Movement in the late 1800's and there are some extensive versions of it. Poplar Log House on the Hill: I heard this from Roger Sprung in Washington Square about 1953. It was originally recorded by the Carter Family in the 1930's along with many other traditional songs they knew. The Devil and the Farmer: I know five different tunes to this song which I learned from Cornelia ________ in 1945 when I worked at Camp Turkey Point. (I wish I could remember her name). I offset its male chauvanism, very old story by including The Old Man in the Woods (Song 12). Google this song to discover good examples of the ever changing folk song process. I know five versions of it. Penny's Farm: Pete Seeger sang this at a union hall concert in New York circa 1953 and later recorded it. It may have come from a pre- 1929 song, Hard Times and ended up as Bob Dylan's version of it. I hope he is helping farmers pay off their mortgages with his royalties. The Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn: also from Cornelia ________ in 1945. Peggy Seeger recorded a minor version of it, circa 1955, and the latter has become the more popular version. My Government Claim: Learned from Bill Bonyun in 1952 at Old Sturbridge Village, MA. Also called the Lane County Bachelor. Somebody ought to sell corn dodgers at our Farmers's Market, and cook them on a shovel to be authentic. Pastures of Plenty: by Woody Guthrie. One of a group of songs he wrote for the Columbia River Dam project. The Lazy Farmer: learned from Jean Ritchie, my wonderful 1952 dancing partner at the English Country Dance Society in New York. Times Getting Hard: learned from Oscar Brand with who or whom I sang with every week for years in the 1950's as part of the Shanty Boys on WNYC, perhaps America's first public radio station. Homestead on the Farm: A 1929 or earlier Carter Family song I learned from the Kossoy Sisters in Washington Square. Old Man in the Woods: Learned from Bill Bonyun in 1952 at Old Sturbridge Village. A woman's response to the Devil and the Farmer. The Great Dust Storm: by Woody Guthrie that I got from a singer in Northfield Mass. in 1945 at a convention of the American Youth Hostels. Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn: from the singing of Richard Dyer Bennet in Southbridge Mass. circa 1959. I think he wrote the last verse, as he did for several other traditional songs. Originally it was about King Arthur's three sons. When I First Came To This Land: Learned this one from Oscar Brand. Recognize the tune? Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, evidently composed by Mozart. The Sow Took the Measels learned from Burl Ives at his yearly Town Hall concert, circa 1942 Rambling Round: by Woody Guthrie in his collection of Dust Bowl Ballads. Out After Beer: my translation of a traditional Danish song that I learned on a bus in Copenhagen from Mimi Anderson, 1951 Bog in the Valley: My farm-focused version of an Irish song about a tree in a bog that was collected by Jean Ritchie in England. After recording this CD I remembered four additional farm songs that I'll include on other recordings, I hope For Peace on Earth through Peace with Earth, Mike Cohen Act
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