Pete Seeger - Rye Whiskey video free download


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Duration: 02:19
Uploaded: 2011/03/01

Rye whiskey rye whiskey

Rye whiskey I cry

If you don't give me rye whiskey

I surely will die

If the ocean was whiskey

And I was a duck

I'd dive to the bottom

And never come up

Way up on Clinch Mountain

I wander alone

I'm drunk as the devil

Just leave me alone

I'll eat when I'm hungry

I'll drink when I'm dry

If a tree don't fall on me

I'll live 'til I die

Comments

8 years ago

Katie Brown

Sometimes no matter how far you come or struggle the people that promised they would love you your whole life matter what will the people that never really believed in you in the first pace! Who needs them? Where are they now that the storm is over? I figured they would here since they skipped the storm. I don't even know them anymore. I need the people that are in my life and have been when my storm was at my worst. Dave and I will never give up on each other or our children.

9 years ago

DaOak99

This song is awesome

9 years ago

Mark DeJarnette

The lyrics to the version I learned as a small child (and sang in church when the minister asked if I knew any songs about god and praying) were... "Rye whiskey rye whiskey rye whiske I pray, if I can't have rye whiskey, I'll go to my grave". ;-)

9 years ago

James Tuttle

gotta love good ole pete seeger. Dave Matthews does an amazing cover of this song

9 years ago

TheOneTrueKaliban

'Always did love this mans' singing, just never could sand HIM, the red son of a bitch!

9 years ago

Wyatt Davis

That's right lol

9 years ago

c032970

That Ol' time bluegrass Whiskey blues! Yeeeehaaawww love it!

9 years ago

Garrett Hammett

what all are you talking about its a good song

9 years ago

Johnnie Guitar

Check out this song sung by Tex Ritter in 1936. Sung by an inebriated gaucho, it makes a lot of sense. Nice try Pete, a folky version much appreciated, but needs Tex's folksy inebriated style to my ear, anyways. :)

9 years ago

Leela Debris

lol singing his ass off 

9 years ago

William Cox

The great American songster. His uncle was Alan Seeger, the man who wrote: "I Have a Rendezvous With Death", before marching off to be cut down by German Machine Guns on 4 July 1916, at Belloy-en-Santerre, while serving in the Foreign Legion (having volunteered as the US was not in the war).

9 years ago

Michael Hoshall

Pete got it goin 

9 years ago

Mac Robb

An odd misspelling: rye is from Canada and the proper spelling is "whisky."

9 years ago

Christian Papaseit

+ vers l original song music des pionniers

10 years ago

porchstep

But it's a lovely butchering!

10 years ago

tyvek05

dang, that was the worst rendition of this song i have ever heard! it hurt my ears to listen to him butcher it like that.

10 years ago

PierGiorgio Gawronski

Fare thee well Mr. Seeger. Hope we'll join you soon

10 years ago

JimChris Thementalcores

You ate when you were hungryyou drank when you were drya tree didn't fall on youyou lived til you died... R.I.P Pete

10 years ago

risingraven

Rip Pete see you in the next one. 

10 years ago

William Kelly

eat when your hungry, drink when your dry, if a tree don't fall on you, you will live till you die...rip Pete!

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