"Red Wing" is a popular song written in 1907 with music by Kerry Mills and lyrics by Thurland Chattaway. Mills adapted the music of the verse from Robert Schumann's piano composition "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" from his 1848 Album for the Young, Opus 68. The song tells of a young Indian girl's loss of her sweetheart who has died in battle. Woody Guthrie changed the words to this song for his song, Union Maid. I sang a verse at the end. This was my Grandma`s favorite song. She sang the chorus different though. I sang the last chorus like she used to. I sing and play it on the banjo, clawhammer style this time. Red Wing - Lyrics There once was an Indian maid, A shy little prairie maid, Who sang a lay, a love song gay, while on the plain she'd while away the day; She loved a warrior bold, This shy little maid of old, But brave and gay, he rode one day To battle far away. Chorus: Now, the moon shines bright on pretty Red Wing The breeze is sighing, the night bird's crying, For afar 'neath his star her brave is sleeping, While Red Wing's weeping her heart away. She watched for him day and night, She kept all the campfires bright, And under the sky, each night she would lie, And dream about his coming by and by; But when all the braves returned, The heart of Red Wing yearned, For far, far away, her warrior gay, Fell bravely in the fray. Now, the moon shines bright on pretty Red Wing The breeze is sighing, the night bird's crying, For afar 'neath his star her brave is sleeping, While Red Wing's weeping her heart away. How my Grandma used to sing it: Oh the sun shines bright on pretty red wing. on pretty red wing, on pretty red wing. Oh the sun shines bright on pretty red wing, on pretty red wing, so far away. (Chorus) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7JyUw_CXwg

The Crawdad Hole or The Crawdad Song, You get a line and I`ll get a pole, Crawdad, Crawdad song. Many different names and different lyrics. An old Southern Appalachian American folk song. I play it in the old time banjo clawhammer style on a mountain banjo and sing it. Here are the traditional lyrics. Jump in anywhere and sing along with me now you hear. Crawdad hole - Lyrics Traditional Folk Song Performed by, Dan D. Dirges You get a line and I'll get a pole, Honey, You get a line and I'll get a pole, Babe. You get a line and I'll get a pole, We'll go down to the crawdad hole, Honey, sugar baby mine. Sittin' on the bank 'til your feet get cold, Honey, Sittin' on the bank 'til your feet get cold, Babe, Sittin' on the bank 'til your feet get cold, watching that crawdad dig his hole, Honey, sugar baby mine. What you gonna do when the well goes dry, Honey, What you gonna do when the well goes dry, Babe, What you gonna do when the well goes dry, Gonna sit on the bank and cry cry cry Honey, sugar baby mine. Get up old man you slept too late, Honey, Get up old man you slept too late, Babe, Get up old man you slept too late, That crawdad man's done passed your gate, Honey, sugar baby mine. Yonder comes a man with a pack on his back, Honey, Yonder comes a man with a pack on his back, Babe, Yonder comes a man with a pack on his back, Packin' all the crawdads he can pack, Honey, sugar baby mine. You get a line and I'll get a pole, Honey, You get a line and I'll get a pole, Babe. You get a line and I'll get a pole, We'll go down to the crawdad hole, Honey, sugar baby mine. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz2vAxqfRNE

Freight Train Blues was written by, Roy Acuff. I tried to play it like, Derroll Adams. Banjo is tuned to open C relative to capo. GCGCE. I used the index lead upstroke banjo technique. Its an old time banjo way of playing that`s not used very much anymore. Derroll Adams played this way. Pete Seeger is best known for this style. Freight Train Blues - lyrics I was born in Dixie, in a boomer shack Just a little shanty by the railroad tracks Hummin' of the drivers was my lullaby Freight train whistle taught me how to cry Freight train blues Got them in the middle of my ramblin' shoes Freight train blues Got them in the middle of my ramblin' shoes Now I'm old enough to quit this runnin' around Tried a hundred times to settle down Every time I find a place I want to stay Freight train whistle sends me on my way Freight train blues... My daddy was a fireman and my mammy dear The only daughter of an engineer My sweetie's a brakeman and it ain't no joke It's a shame the way she keeps the poor man broke Freight train blues... © Words and music: Roy Acuff ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PErqxiy7Ic

Just amazing lyrics to this old folk song. Derroll Adams plays this great. I`m trying out a clawhammer guitar because my banjo is so loud it just takes over. I like the mellow wood sound of guitar for this one. Anna Feher - traditional - lyrics banjo (Guitar) in minor tuning (2nd string tuned down a half step) performed by Dan D. Dirges Anna Feher (Traditional) Laszlo Thea stole a stallion, stole it from the Misty Mountains And they followed and they've caught him, and in iron chains they've bound him Word was brought to Anna Feher, that her brother lay in prison Bring me gold and six white horses, I will buy my brother's freedom Judge, oh judge, please spare my brother, I will give you gold and silver, I don't want your gold and silver, all I want are your sweet favors. Anna Feher, hold, my sister, are you mad with grief and sorrow? He will rob you of your flower, and he'll hang me from the gallows. Anna Feher did not heed him, to that judge she came a-running, In his golden bed at midnight, there she heard the gallows groaning Cursed be that judge so cruel, thirteen years may he lie bleeding Thirteen doctors can't heal him, thirteen shelves of drugs can't heal him. Anna Feher, Anna Feher, do not go into the forest There among the green pines standing, There you`ll find your brother hanging. Laszlo Thea stole a stallion, stole it from the Misty Mountains And they've followed and they caught him, and in iron chains they've bound him. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhfxM3WIdjs