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My name is Tom Hight, an old bachelor I am
You'll find me out West in the county of fame
You'll find me out West on an elegant plan
A-starving to death on my government claim
Hurrah, for Greer County! The land of the free
The land of the bedbug, grasshopper, and flea
I'll sing of its praises, I'll tell of its fame
While starving to death on my government claim
My clothes they are ragged, my language is rough
My bread is corn dodgers, both solid and tough
And yet I am happy and live at my ease
On sorghum, molasses, and bacon and cheese
My house, it is built of the national soil
Its walls are erected according to Hoyle
Its roof has no pitch, but is level and plain
I always get wet if it happens to rain
Hurrah, for Greer County! The land of the free
The home of the bedbug, grasshopper, and flea
I'll sing of its praises, I'll tell of its fame
While starving to death on my government claim
How happy am I when I crawl into bed!
A rattlesnake hisses a tune at my head
A gay little centipede, quite without fear
Crawls over my pillow and into my ear
Now all you claim holders, I hope you will stay
Chew your hardtack till you're toothless and gray
But for myself, I'll no longer remain
To starve like a dog on my government claim
Hurrah, to Greer County, where blizzards arise
Where the sun never sinks, the flea never dies
I'll sing of its praises, I'll tell of its fame
While starving to death on my government claim
Goodbye to Greer County, goodbye to the West
I'll travel back East to the girl I love best
I'll travel back East and marry me a wife
Call quits on corn dodgers the rest of my life



Autor(en): traditional


Pete Seeger - American Favorite Ballads, Vols. 1-5 (Box Set)
Album American Favorite Ballads, Vols. 1-5 (Box Set)
Veröffentlichungsdatum
21-04-2009

1   Lady Margret
2   John Henry
3   Shenandoah
4   John Hardy
5   Johnson
6   Blue Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn)
7   Black Girl
8   John Riley
9   Washer Lad
10   Skip to My Lou
11   Talking Blues
12   The Big Rock Candy Mountain
13   Clementine
14   Lolly-Too-Dum
15   T.B. Blues
16   Yankee Doodle
17   Home On the Range
18   Summertime
19   Trail to Mexico
20   John Brown's Body
21   Goodnight, Irene
22   Red River Valley
23   Old Joe Clark
24   Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
25   St. James Infirmary
26   Greer County Bachelor
27   Wayfaring Stranger
28   Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
29   Ox Driver's Song
30   Buffalo Gals
31   Down In the Valley
32   The Wabash Cannonball
33   Joe Bowers
34   Tex-I-An Boys
35   On Top of Old Smoky
36   Frankie and Johnny
37   My Sweetheart Is a Mule in the Mines
38   Johnny Gray
39   I Ride an Old Paint
40   The Wreck of the Old '97
41   Cowboy Yodel
42   Sioux Indians
43   Wagoner's Lad
44   Ida Red
45   Old Dan Tucker
46   I've Been Working on the Railroad
47   Holler
48   Cumberland Gap
49   Cielito Lindo
50   So Long, It's Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust)
51   Wake Up Jacob
52   Sweet Betsy From Pike
53   America The Beautiful
54   This Land Is Your Land
55   Buffalo Skinners
56   Whiskey, Rye Whiskey
57   Barbara Allen
58   Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
59   Stewball
60   Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
61   Midnight Special
62   House of the Rising Sun
63   Strawberry Roan
64   Jay Goulds Daughter
65   Careless Love
66   Oh, What a Beautiful City (Twelve Gates to the City)
67   Play Party
68   I Will Never Marry
69   Riflemen of Bennington
70   Sally Ann
71   The Riddle Song
72   Kingdom Coming
73   Go Tell Aunt Rhodie
74   Cumberland Moutain Bear Chase
75   My Gallant Black Bess (Bonus Track - Previously Unreleased)
76   The Water Is Wide
77   The Fox
78   The Keeper and The Doe
79   Pretty Polly
80   Jesse James
81   Stagolee (Stagger Lee)
82   Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
83   Camptown Races
84   Blow the Man Down
85   Froggie Went a Courtin'
86   I Had a Rooster (Barnyard Song)
87   The Farmer's Curst Wife
88   Hard Travelin'
89   Alabama Bound
90   Wimoweh
91   Dink's Song
92   Gypsy Davy
93   Deep Blue Sea
94   St.James Hospital
95   Erie Canal
96   St. Louis Blues
97   Boll Weevil
98   The Girl I Left Behind
99   When I First Came to This Land
100   The Titanic
101   Elanoy
102   Lady of Carlysle
103   My Good Man (Our Goodman)
104   Golden Vanity
105   Ain't it a Shame
106   Swanee River
107   Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
108   The Boys from County Mayo
109   No Irish Need Apply
110   Paddy Works On the Railroad
111   Arkansas Traveler
112   When I Was Single
113   Wondrous Love
114   Ground Hog
115   Old Blue
116   She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
117   Banks of the Ohio
118   You Are My Sunshine
119   Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
120   The Foggy Dew
121   Molly Malone
122   Old Maid's Song
123   Oh, How He Lied
124   Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow
125   Leatherwing Bat
126   Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
127   Farther Along
128   Go Down, Moses
129   All My Trials
130   No More Auction Block
131   Hole in the Bucket
132   What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor
133   Army Life
134   Blue Mountain Lake




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