Pete Seeger and pals attend NYC protest

Pete Seeger is kind of a boss

Pete Seeger at the protest

Duncan and Brady (Leadbelly)

I think this song is the most catching of all the Leadbelly songs. What amazing lyrics! I'm particularly struck by the term "King Brady". What do you guys think about this song?

Duncan, Duncan was tending the bar
In walked Brady with a shining star
And Brady says, "Duncan you are under arrest
And Duncan shot a hole in Brady's breast.

Brady, Brady carried a '45,
Said it would shoot half a mile,
Duncan had a '44
That what laid Mr. Brady so low.

Brady fell down on the barroom floor,
"Please Mr. Duncan don' shoot me no more
Women all cryin, ain't it a shame,
Shot King Brady, goin' shoot him again.

"Brady, Brady, Brady, you know you done wrong
Walkin' in the room when the game was goin' on
Knockin down windows, breakin' down the door
Now you lyin' dead on the grocery [barroom] floor.

Women all heard that Brady was dead,
Goes back home and they dresses in red.
Come a snifflin' and a sighin' down the street,
In their big mother hubbards and their stockin' feet.

From the Archives

Here are some amazing photos of the American cultural landscape which really help put a home to the songs of this class. The 77 photos range from a Civil War camp in Tennessee all the way to the 1950's Manhattan skyscape, but many are from the South and Appalachia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/22/from-the-archive-american-cities-pre-1950/

Ohio, 1937

Banks of the Ohio comic

Hi guys, a friend just shared this link with me to an illustration of the Banks of the Ohio lyrics. There's the one above and a lot more at this website, check it out:

http://r-dart.livejournal.com/9753.html