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  • tis dm my friend its a fun song i just learned it the licks are awsome!

  • my favorite voice on the planet! beautiful instrumental too

  • Actually no... Listen to him sing this song LIVE while blitzed out of his skull...

  • Jack White also had an acting role in the movie as "Georgia" ...

  • Love Jack White!

  • mumford and sons should do a cover of this song

  • got tobaccoo uon my keybord and grain alcahol in my stomach

  • Love jacks version!:D

  • Jack's version is the best.

  • Call me crazy, but I've listened to 8 versions of this song... and this is my favorite.

  • anyone know what key he does this version in?

  • @Arfme This is in Dm I think.

  • @Arfme it is in the key of d i believe.

  • @ SoBelleofTN Do you have a veterinarian in your town? I'm a verterinary nurse and we're looking to move...I'd love to go home to Tennessee....

  • I'm moving out of California now, kthxbai

  • wow, i didn't realize until years after seeing the movie that the character "Georgia" was Jack White.

  • @PixieLover908 Thats because your an idiot.

  • @Fitzmer what? why?

  • Fuck you

  • Hmmm....I pretty much decided that I just swooned! Beautiful song and Jack really captured it wonderfully.

  • @killutilludi calm down killer, all i was saying if you compare seven nations army and this song, their like two different worlds I had never seen this side of Jack White.

  • @chyon479 i see what you mean mate :) tyhis shows the diversity of my white the man is a talent amazing :)

  • This strikes a sense of southern pride in me.

  • This was not shot in Canada as some have posted.

    "Where I saw him in action was on film sets. I spent a week in a remote area of northern Romania's Carpathian mountains, as he shot several scenes of Cold Mountain with Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger and Philip Seymour Hoffman. This arduous shoot lasted six months in often appalling conditions. Battle scenes were shot in blistering heat; later, temperatures plunged to minus 20C." - David Gritten

  • My top three Wayfaring Strangers:

    1. Dave Eugene Edwards

    2. Johnny Cash

    3. Jack White

  • in a way...i have to thank the music industry for hitting a complete dead end, and producing damn near nothing but lyrical and audio vomit for the past couple years. in my disgust for the direction music has gone as of late, i have fallen back on the old and discovered a most beautiful and powerful artistry, one that now holds a very dear place in my heart.

  • SoBelleofTN- Thats awesome! Love this movie, love the music, (btw, my fater is from Tennessee, an I spend my formative years there. Miss it badly...) I just read your post to my hubby and he was stunned. Pretty cool...

  • @NicciCoxify - Everyone who came from Tennessee, have always wanted to return to it ! I also left home after school married my husband who was a military man and we spent the next 21 years traveling all over the USA and overseas as well. When It came time for him to retire we had to decide where to live and spend our lives with two children one still in school. It didn't take us long to say Tennessee, perfect place to live, smaller town environment , nice friendly people! so here we are.

  • Drinking beer, bondo dust smell, I think Stuart ... if you are listening ... did a nice job ... pro ... a little over played ... come over ... ill give you a nice old rough country viola to play and the feel will be ... eternal sadness ... no ... nice ... i like. And I think Mike Compton on mando ... excellent, and who is clawhammer? I'm so ignorant! I hate computers ... but wish I had youtube when I was a kid!!!!!

  • Man of Constant Sorrow - The Soggybottom Boys (Oh Brother Where Art Thou')

  • I love this song so much, I turn it on close my eyes and listen to the wonderful raw medley of instrumental bliss..thanks for sharing!

  • who is the fiddler - beautiful job....

  • @strungup101 Stuart Duncan according to Wikipedia

  • i'm from chicago...i spent 7 years in Texas...it's hard when you're from both sides...heart, soul and humanity lives in the south...except for the race thing...i appreciate the few black folks you didn't crush...they're bigger better Americans than most of us...

  • the truest americans are native americans, whites, and blacks, this is true american music

  • I adore this song. I come from a very Irish and Scottish family and this songs origins come from Britain. I am also a proud American and this song fits SO well with our American southern folk music. This song feels like the essence of everything that I am.

  • @MuslimahSoapbox Ah, Scottish and Irish? So that's why I love this music so much! My mother and ancestors are/were Scottish and I hadn't heard this song, or type of music until I saw Cold Mountain and simply fell in love with it. Just didn't know why it spoke to my soul so much - now I do thanks to your comment! It's in my blood! Peace!

  • jack white is a musical god

  • We have alot of Jack White fan boys, but the man is special. He hasnt given us any reason to doubt him. Other than the song conquest :P lol.

  • what an old war tune. hope I meet the maker ;)

  • @chyon479 seriously? this type of music is basically blues before there was blues. "Death Letter", "Ball and a Biscuit".....he didn't have it in him?

  • Sacred Harp 457 listed as Bever's Christian Songster 1858 arranged John Dye 1935

    Yet there's no sickness, toil nor danger, in that bright land to which I go.

  • This is a great song, and the movie is good enough to make even me sympathize with the confederacy.

  • @emmybelle10 the confederacy or the southern people?

  • I love how the Movie this song is for takes place in the History of my Home County in North Carolina. Its a great movie too, Wish I had it with me to watch every now and then.

  • This make me proud to live in West Virginia, the heart of the Apppalachian Mountains

  • @wvmaynard Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"(Might need to google that)

  • this rendition shakes vertebrae

  • My kinsemen fought for both the North and the South; therefore, I'll sing "Dixie and Rally Roubnd the Flag". They gathered at Gettysburg on 1 July 1863. One was wounded and the other killed -- a Reb and a Yank. It's music like this song that brings it all back home. It's our History.

  • @ernstbecker1 cool. i have family on both sides too. haha and you know, they were at a few of the same battles so my great great grandfathers might have been shooting each other

  • @DurhamRebel I had the same feeling. While visiting Gettysburg, one can't help feel an overall serenity. It is hard to picture that such a beautiful place witnessed such a trajedy.

  • @ernstbecker1 i know at gettysburg i got a weird feeling in a few places. cant explain it.

  • There is no sickness, toil, or danger in that fair land to which I go,

    I'm going home to see my mother, I'm going home, no more to roam.

  • this is an apilaician song rooted in Ireland

  • wauw what can I say...

  • fucking love this song and movie. jack white did an outstanding job

  • I cringe every time I hear this version, it's so "Cold Mountain" forced. I was disappointed in the choosing of Jack White for this historically Appalachian song, but I guess Hollywood knows best, what do I know, I was only born & raised in Kentucky. BTW, I like Jack White, just not singing this song.

  • My Family in Kentucky Had a Blue Grass Band in the 60's and 70's , "The Kentucky Raiders"

    They Use to Sing this Song all the Time.

    A Beautifull Sad Song with a Great Story Included. The Movie Really Brought Out The History of the South on Cold Mountain During the Civil War.

  • I'm in love with this.

  • love the movie love the soundtrack

  • brilliant ! cold mountain rocks ! jack white rocks !

  • Growing up in KY, I've enjoyed a lot of brilliant bluegrass artists singing this tune. I've from the same place as Mr. Bill Monroe and his version can't be beat. Jack did a fantastic job and is a very, very talented man, but when your roots are that of Mr. Monroe's, you're validated and all those who hear can feel it.

  • wow this is amazing, at least this music has alot of soul to it, and im a southerner too (florida) great place:)

  • This song is Appalachian Folk, written and sung by those who had nothing, but knew where and in whom their hope lay. Their hope lay in heaven, across the Jordan with their Savior, Christ, who without faith in no man nor woman can cross over Jordan completing their journey home. Heaven is our hope and our home. We are all wayfaring strangers here, we belong in Heaven with our eternal Father. Listen to the words of this song, and if you feel lost seek Christ securing that peace he promises.

  • everyone should listen to jamie woons version its much better has way more soul

  • my daddy sings this all the time playin his banjo, i love it <3 makes me feel little again. bluegrass is forever, the history, and pure good music of this country.

  • This song and Great High Mountain are beautiful.

  • Without a doubt this song stronly pulls on your hearstrings. Please do yourselves a favor and listen to the version done by Tennessee Ernie Ford, you won't regret those few precious minutes.

  • @hughbo52

    Agree..also like Trace Adkins version.

  • I love the book, And this song is so amazing.

  • how old is this tune,such a sad song,but touching.

  • I heard Jack White perform "Death Letter" about five years ago ... I knew then that he had it in him. I don't particularly go for most of his work but sometimes he just hits home like he did here.

  • im a Kiwi comin to the south next year. wana meet some cool south people. can we share

  • @seanrepo what is a kiwi and i was born in mobile ala and lived ithe south all my life

  • @swssinc I think that he's telling you that he comes from New Zealand. Someone once told me ...." East, West, and North are just points on the compass....but South is a place..."

  • Which was sadder,TWBTS or Vietnam? Both had millions of young men far away from home, missing family & loved ones. Many dying. Many maimed for life.

    This song brings all this to mind.

  • @dawcic

    Vietnam is like eating lunch compared to Virginia 150 years ago :/

    More than 1 person survived Vietnam

  • i am a poor wayfaring stranger!

  • Good Song :)

  • this song is truly southern, I am southern born and raised and this song is really

    something. It reminds me of songs my father used to sing. I love it.

    brings back memories. thanks

  • Being a southern girl born and raised within the military, this song brings back the memory of what our fallen were fighting for. They fought to come home.

  • @chazLdy Godbless

  • before he did the thing with white stripes he use to sing songs like this all the time ..

  • other version is Druha trava

  • this song gets me to the core of my soul.....thanks Jack for not bein afraid to play what u feel

  • I love this movie alot!

  • Hey Guys,

    according to my memory the film was based on a book written by Ada monrou if I remember it correctly.

  • @Edhelill Nope, Charles Frazier of Asheville, NC.

  • Jack wihte is a Country star :D Thats sooo good

  • @alpnacher1993

    this isn't country. this is bluegrass.

  • @alpnacher1993

    this isn't country. this is bluegrass.

  • @PlanetClaireDeluxe

    Actually this cant be bluegrass, this is pure american folk music. Bluegrass is something different...

  • @montella111

    hate to burst your bubble but bluegrass is a form of north american folk music. however, if you'll listen to this version of this song you'll note that it contains an instrumental solo, which very much makes it bluegrass. perhaps you'd enjoy coming to my hometown's Uncle Dave Macon Days bluegrass festival next July. you'll learn a lot about the difference in styles of folk music... bluegrass and otherwise. ;-)

  • @PlanetClaireDeluxe

    Bluegrass is a form of Noth American music BASED and WITH ROOTS in old-time folk music of Appalachia but it's not the old-time folk music. Bill Monroe created bluegrass in 40's, it cant be pure folk music. Theres huge difference between bluegrass and old-time folk tunes of Appalachia, which this is. To me, it's different. Bluegrass is much more... comercial. :-)

  • @montella111 found your comment interesting. Please tell me what you think of my version of this

  • Interesting about W.P. Inman

  • Jack White did a Damn good Job with this song... looking at the white stripes i would have never guessed he had it in him.

  • @chyon479, i know!

  • @chyon479 alot of white stripes stuf mirrors this, jack prefers listning to this kind of music... if you listn, many tracks of his are bluesey or folky mixed with post punk agression, it just shows where his inspirations come from

  • @chyon479 looking at the nine grammy wins i knew he had it in him.

  • @chyon479 If you've ever seen the movie "it might get loud" you really learn how much passion and soul Jack White has for music, specifically the roots of rock, i.e blues and folk. Fantastic musician and fantastic film, if you havn't seen it I would highly recommend it. 

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  • @chyon479 check out a flick called "it might get loud". Its about Jack White, Jimmy Page, and The Edge....fantastic, I was stunned to see what Jack's fave tune is.

  • @chyon479 looking at the white stripes ???? mate listning to the whiote stripes you can see jack whites diversity he did such a good job on this because hes such a fantastic musician bad comment u made there find out more about mr jack white dude

  • There really was a " William P. Inman", for those who saw "Cold Mountain",the movie. I have found his record and he signed up with the Confederacy in 1861 at the age of 22. He was from Haywood Co. North Carolina. Inman served in the 25th N.C. Infantry in Co. F. He signed up at Camp Davis near Wilmington N.C. and was in two hospitals, during the war, with a neck wound. Amazing!

  • @SoBelleofTN There really is a Cold Mountain too. I can turn my head and see it out my window. Inman has his own chapel about 10 minutes away that still gets used occasionally. He's still got relatives around that I know.

  • @SoBelleofTN Yeah. The character is based off the ancestor of the writer of the book. Charles Frazier had an ancestor named Inman and he used the name and the setting as a means to tell a great story.

  • @SoBelleofTN No way.......if so that is truly amazing and even more so that you found that out!!!! that makes me happy that someone likes to learn our history too!!!!......thats really amazing!!!!

  • @SoBelleofTN W. P. Inman was actually the great-great-uncle of the author of Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier :) Inman's story was handed down to him from his father.

  • @RainingFires I love geneology and tracing historical figures. Where did you find your information? I

  • @RKWilder I learned about Charles Frazier's connection to Inman through a literary interview on his book

  • muito bonito...

  • he really shouldn't try to use an accent like in the start but deffinetly a good cover

  • @knules2 He uses the same accent the whole way through.

  • i wrote that before listening to all of it

  • Oh, okay then. lol

  • amazing movie...good music

  • Kazda z pisnicek k tomuto filmu je jedna velka dokonalost..Clovek si je musi prehravat porad a porad a porad,pze kdyz uz je ma vryte pod kuzi a dochazi mu dech,tak se muze pri poslechu zase v klidu nadechnout a oddat se tomu,co se v nem odehrava..

  • I love the song...and the music...Jack White's forced southern drawl is...well...forced. I would rather hear it in his natural voice. JMHO

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  • I am from Czech Republic ( Europe ) but I like this song very much and I play that again and again....

  • when you are from the South, you are of the South, and it is part of you, no shame...just unspoken pride. My Grandpaw sang this to me when I was a little girl

  • i'm from Appalachia born and bred in the mountains of Southern West Virginia.. this song is Awesome.. proud to be from the south

  • I just read Cold Mountain, it's nice to hear the music to the titles. Very ethereal, great book.

  • @SenseiSixx You should watch the movie, too. It's different from the book in many aspects (particularly the romance), but just as touching and moving.

  • I have. I thought it was good. Obviously like all other book/movie remakes not near as good as the novel. But the all south eastern touch they flavored the movie with was amazing. We read this for a class I'm taking. We've read 3 others since then. Still definitely one of my favorites.

  • I always loved when we sang this song in choir as a kid :)

  • Wow what a song kinda eerie, reminds me of the of the stories my paw paw told me .  - I'm going home!!!!!-

  • This song reminds me so much last winter,sitting in a shed, in the middle january, it was really cold, but me and my close friends just sat around listening to the cold moutain sound track sippin' on beer.

  • to beatiful vor his world

  • it makes me cry

  • Ahhhh, :)

    It's good to live in North Carolina :P

  • being a southern girl born and raised, this song brings back the true meaning of being a citizen of the South.

    this song was beautifully done.

    i can feel the soul of it right in my chest.

    its amazing.

  • I know what you mean. I get this nostalgic feeling and my heart swells. This music really speaks. Is it bad to say I love being from the South?

  • it's never bad to love being from the south.

    it's the best pride a person can have. =)

  • @secondCitylove Amen South Soul Sistah!

  • @secondCitylove hells yah...you's a true southerner. and i'm not even american!!

  • @secondCitylove tim eriksen - the dying californian

  • I spent 3 days climbing mountains in east tennessee alone with just my clothes and a sleeping bag eating berrys and shrubs this song has good meaning

  • To the person who mentioned Inman, the real William P. Inman was 22 years old in 1862. He was one of 5 brothers to join a North Carolina unit but only he & his brother, Lewis, were in the same unit.  They both deserted twice & by 1864 had pledged an oath of loyally to the US. There is no real evidence to support if he was killed by the real head of the homeguard, Teague, 5 miles from his home. Military records show his brother was with him throughout the war and Lewis made it home safely.

  • Wow I really like this song. What genre is it? I think ''cowboy-music'' doesn't really cut it. I don't think it's country either.

  • It's folk music. I love it too. :D

  • Appalachian folk music.

  • Bluegrass.

  • God, I adore Jack White!

  • This song is amazing and I love Jack White!!

  • The movie pales in comparison to the book and certainly takes creative license in changing many critical parts; notably the opening scene.

  • This song hits you in your soul. You can feel the passion in his voice.

  • The real "Cold Mountain", lies at the base of the Smokey Mountains in North Carolina. There was also a real Inman as well, who joined the Confederate army and fought in the Civil War, from this area. It was somewhere close to Asheville area. The man who wrote the book, Charles Frazier, is from that area, is said to have done his research well before writing the book. If you think the movie is great read the book! It is awesome and even better than the movie. Loaded with vivid historical detail.

  • You are so right. Charles Frazier loads up the facts. Another GREAT book by him is 13 moons. Check it out :-)

  • Oh my gosh, I didn't know that! Thanks for the heads up! Is the book 13 Moons also on the lines of Cold Mountain or can you tell us what it is about? I do Civil War research and actually found a man by the name of "Inman", from the western mountain area of North Carolina. The sad part is that the movie wasn't filmed their, but in a foreign country!

  • 13 Moons is more of the Native American side of things. I apologize but I can't remember a whole lot of the details. What I do remember though is the feeling it left me with. Moving!! And his knowledge on the subject matter is extensive. A must read. Enjoy :-)

  • Thirteen Moons is the story about the life of a white man who had been raised and adopted by the Cherokee after his relatives disowned him. He became an outspoken advocate for Native American rights, and was also elected Senator, as he continued fighting for their rights. He was also a Confederate guerilla commander during the War. The story spans over 100 years, from the 1820s to about 1920, near the end of his life. It is an absolutely beautiful and heartwarming novel. You must read it :D

  • Thanks so much for this information! I now have the book and reading it. As soon as I saw " browning bobby", post, I went straight to the book store and bought it. I have a direct decendent my GGGGG-Grandmother, whom I 'm told through research is 1/2 Native American Cherokee . She married a graduate of Dartmouth College, from Grafton , Mass. who later came to Tennessee . This man my direct ancestor , became quite famous for the times and was a friend of Andrew Jackson , who lived close by.

  • I got the book "13 Moons", and wow your absolutely right, such a good read. If anyone is interested in the Native American Cherokee's of the Smokey Mountains area of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina, this is a must to read. Charles Frazier , has done it again with this book. I hope they make a movie from this book, just like "Cold Mountain" that he also wrote. He is originally from the area that his books portray, no wonder they are so fantastic!

  • Jack White is an amazing singer! One of the best out there*

  • Who actually wrote this song?

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  • Like a lot (probably most) of old-time songs it's been passed down through many generations. No one knows who wrote it originally.

  • as a drama it was great, but was lacking as an historical drama!

  • i do not know what does that mean

  • just saying there is no place called cold mountian, and do you know how rare a Le Mat revolver is? Im just saying historically it was somewhat lacking. Yet still a decent movie.

  • A. Its based on a book, a historical fiction book, meaning it can take creative license. And actually there is a Cold Mountain in NC just not a town called Cold Mountain. Le Mat revolvers may be rare but they do appear.

    I'm as much as a history fanatic as the next gal (i'm actually OCD about it) but this was a good movie and it was not historically lacking.

  • not saying there wasn't a Cold Mtn. (just that there is not at town) and not saying is not a good movie. Just saying there were some areas that needed improving.

  • There is actually a place called Cold Mountain. Actually, 2 places: One in North Carolina, USA, the other in West Sichuan Province, China. Also, LeMat revolvers may be rare but there are over 3,000 of them produced during the war. As a matter of fact, I own one, a Third Model built in 1864. Very beautiful gun.

  • So many people I've asked have never seen this film, and when I insist they do, they always thank me. It s so dreadfully overlooked. I guess we have it all to ourselves in a way.

  • yeah i just saw it last night for the first time on TV. I have seen it played a lot but just passed it. But i am really glad i saw it. One of my new favorites!

  • i got the DVD, lol, Awesome movie =]

  • Jack White of the White Stripes, a rare talent.

  • Echo that! Extraordinary!

  • i cant think of one mainstream artist that can even come close to him out there right now