Banks of the Ohio - Bill Monroe & Doc Watson video free download


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Duration: 03:28
Uploaded: 2008/11/09

I asked my love to take a walk

Just a little ways with me

And as we walked and we would talk

All about our weddingday

Darling say that you'll be mine

In our home we'll happy be

Down beside where the waters flow

On the banks of the Ohio

I took her by her pretty white hand

I let her down that bank of sand

I pushed her in where she would drown

Lord, I saw her as she floated down

Darling say that you'll be mine

In our home we'll happy be

Down beside where the waters flow

On the banks of the Ohio

Returning home about twelve or one

Thinking "Lord, what a deed I've done?"

I killed the girl I love, you see

Because she would not marry me

Darling say that you'll be mine

In our home we'll happy be

Down beside where the waters flow

On the banks of the Ohio.

Comments

9 years ago

Dave Elley

At 192 Brewery in Kenmore.... the folks who meet here to play bluegrass every Tuesday are playing this one....

9 years ago

Sue Strong

Banks of the Ohio- Bill Monroe & Doc Watson...SInce I ( literally) live on the Banks of the Ohio River,this was a 'must post' on my music page !!

9 years ago

Barb Bell

doc watson sound so good

9 years ago

Katie Hoffman

what what year was the song published?

9 years ago

mikejameson1957

The good lord him poor & blind but he gave him a golden thumb hey yeah. i guess they are playing for a different audience now.

10 years ago

Philip Levine

I'm learning to play this on my banjo and singing (lessons)... Its Doc Watson who moves me............

10 years ago

Richard Neville

Certain MUSIC ~ of various styles ~ cuts right to the very heart of the human condition. Doc & Big Mon do that here of course. It would be a shallow person who was NOT deeply touched by this gloriously simple MB & its delivery. Pass that tissue please.

10 years ago

Jay Tagg

American Classics ( chill TIME ) ;-)

10 years ago

Erik Helgan

the 2 greatest musicians ever on the same song cant beat that

10 years ago

Scott Alvis

Great old murder ballad. This one and Pretty Polly are my favorites of the genre.

10 years ago

Joe Wegman

Country aint this great nowadays

11 years ago

kingbushwickthe33rd

True.The old Celtic Murder Ballads from Ireland and Scotland could almost make Eminem and IceTlook tame by comparison.

11 years ago

HEADSUPBERKELEY

Great post thanks

11 years ago

Davebow Hol

This is the part about GETTING OLD that I HATE ! Losing talent such as Doc ! He will continue to captivate for years to come through His Videos.............! Not a drop of EGO, just pure talent . RIP -Doc. David G. Holland , Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.

11 years ago

John Nepovietz

Goodnight Doc, I'm imagining you playing this with Bill at this very moment.

11 years ago

Joe Wood

Yes, The Kossoy Sisters and The Carter Family did alot of these type songs, and they learned them from the mountain folk in and around Appalacia and in the Shenandoah... Many of these are no different than the traditional Stagolee or Jesse James type song, which can be country, blues, or folk. But the songs are about true life.

11 years ago

pictowoman

Georgia Rae Family Band loves to sing about sinners, and MRDER BALLADS . This one's great. Maybe we will rock this song out on our third CD. "Songs about Murder, as Gospel as we get" :) Good times.

12 years ago

looterish

I first heard this song sung by the Louvin Brothers. Doc and Monroe sing it a litle differently. Great "golden age" stuff. I love it.

12 years ago

LES6723

@webbyter And Knoxville Girl was a big one

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