Virgil Anderson sings & plays "Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home" on 5-string banjo for the Appalachian Studies Conference at Berea College, 30 March 1985. Thanks to Zac Sockolow for providing the banjo tuning: fDGCD. ⬇⬇⬇ LYRICS ⬇⬇⬇ I'm a poor boy and a long old ways from home I'm a poor boy got no wheres to go I'm a poor boy got no wheres to go My clothes are so ragged I got no winter shoes I'm a going where the climate suits my clothes Yes I'm a going where the water drinks like cherry wine I may have to ride the blinds woman I ain't got a long time I may have to ride the blinds woman I ain't got a long time but I'm going where the chilly winds don't blow I wonder what my honey thinks of me Oh I wonder what my honey thinks of me Just wonder if she'd answer if I'd arrive Won't you hand me down that long distance phone Won't you hand me down that long distance phone Gonna talk to my honey gonna talk to my baby at home You left me woman without a dollar to my name Oh you've left me with my clothes all in bond But I'll see you when you can't talk from crying Thanks to Josh Sullivan for sending me this recording. Description Banjo music played and sung by Virgil Anderson at the Appalachian Studies Conference at Berea College 03/30/85 Location Wayne County, Kentucky Collection Appalachian Center Digitized Audio Cassettes Subject Banjo Music--Kentucky Anderson, Virgil I'm a Poor Boy Identifier AC-CT-154-001-A-06 #banjo #folkmusic #history Clifton Hicks banjo heritage, outlaw old-time music, overhand, clawhammer banjo tablature, two finger tab, thumb lead, 2 finger tableture, frailing and stroke styles plus Appalachian mountain murder ballad hoedown and early minstrel show techniques. History, anthropology, folklore, research and musicology including breakdowns, Oldtime banjo old time close ups demonstrations blues, waltz, skiffle, tin pan alley, Afro-Caribbean and West African, Cajun zydeco, Métis, Creole, Melungeon indigenous native American music traditions. Folk art, asmr, relaxation, calming, meditation, chill, trance. Mountain music, southern culture, dark folk, murder ballad. George Gibson, Ernie Williams, Buell Kazee, Cousin Emmy, Dock Boggs, Rufus Crisp, Virgil Anderson, Lily May Ledford, Roscoe Holcomb, Unknown Henson, Tab Ward, Frank Proffitt, Riley Baugus, Tommy Jarrell, Kyle Creed, Lee Sexton, Morgan Sexton, Lead Belly, Pete Steele, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Leroy Troy, JD Crowe, Rising Appalachia, Clarence Ashley, Fred Cockerham, Dwight Diller, Gaither Carlton, John Snipes, Dink Roberts, Clifford Essex, Joe Sweeney, Archibald Ferguson, Dan Emmett, John Hartford, Picayune Butler, Gus Cannon, Art Rosenbaum, Coon Creek Girls, Grandpa Jones, Snuffy Jenkins, Buell Kazee, Bascam Lamar Lunsford, Uncle Dave Macon, Tommy Ma ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzuHOZJJEY

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