Burl Ives - Delia (AKA "Delia's Gone") video free download
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Uploaded: 2011/09/11
Burl Ives - Delia
Released on "The Versatile Burl Ives!" Decca DL4152, c. 1961
The album reached No. 35 on Billboard's 1962 Pop Album Chart.
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11 years ago
gandimere
The songs inspired by Green's short life and murder now split into two forms, both staples of the "folk revival" of the 1950s and early 1960s. One version, usually attributed to Blake Alphonso Higgs (the calypso singer also known as "Blind Blake"), is known as "Delia's Gone," and is explicitly told from her killer's point of view. "Delia's Gone" was prominently covered by The Kingston Trio, Pete Seeger and four times by Johnny Cash. In the music video for Cash's fourth recording, Delia is played by Kate Moss. The second version, generally attributed to Blind Willie McTell, is usually known as "Delia," and is told from a more ambiguous point of view. Among the many singers who have covered "Delia" are Bob Dylan and David Bromberg.
12 years ago
Peter Warburton
There have been over 28 collected versions of this song since the murder on Christmas Eve 1900 in Savannah GA. The authorship of the song is unknown, the versions have changed over the years with artist writing their own verses with a change here and a change there. Which "Real Lyrics" would you like? Burl, "America's Balladeer", has more authority to sing the song than most people do. These lyics are more "real" than you think. The fact that burl sang em makes them real.
12 years ago
ferociousgumby
I've been trying to find That's All I Can Remember, a man telling the story of being executed for killing his best friend: "And the wheels in my head started turning/And they turned on the juice, and I felt somethin' a-burnin'. . ."
13 years ago
Kenneth Moe
According to Wikipedia his mother's name was Cordelia. Kind of creepy.
13 years ago
Squib Lonius
Where are the REAL lyrics-for this recording No lyrics labeled as Burl Ives 'Delia Gone"- come up with the correct lyrics