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What a fantastic tune, I keep playing it. So what song do you keep playing?
Posted : 22/04/2012 8:29 pm
Awesome history too. Look on wikipedia:
Some sources claim it is one of Lead Belly's many adaptations of earlier folk material. That the song is derived from an 18th century marching cadence about a flint-lock musket with a black painted stock; the "bam-ba-lam" lyric referring to the sound of the gunfire. Soldiers in the field were said to be "hugging Black Betty". In this interpretation, the musket was superseded by its "child", a musket with an unpainted walnut stock known as a "Brown Bess"
Posted : 22/04/2012 8:33 pm
Posted : 22/04/2012 8:34 pm
Black Betty had a child,
Damn Thing gone wild!
PROPER Tune!!! 8)
Posted : 22/04/2012 8:36 pm
Posted : 22/04/2012 8:37 pm
Awesome
Posted : 22/04/2012 8:42 pm
Posted : 22/04/2012 8:42 pm
I have been having a bit of a funk /soul thing recently - so these keep getting played
Posted : 22/04/2012 9:12 pm
Really like this version.
Posted : 23/04/2012 12:58 am