Lonnie Donegan ::: Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley (with original lyrics)

[gmatthews737]

I have not heard this song for at least 35 years, and I appreciate it more now. Great Lonnie D. The old Skiffle groups with the old washboard and tea chest double bass. Great.

[vdclinic]

great song. nice one

[Rikkyhardo]

@vdclinic cheers mate ... blimey that was quick lol

[888ushy]

Thanx for this i have also sang this since i was a kid, and had friends ask what is that song?? ''Never herd of it'' oh well they anit lived love it thanx.....xxx

[blackpanther961]

oh mein gott, habe dieses lied seid jahren nicht mehr gehört!!! schön das ich es hier gefunden habe wow.jea jea jea .......

[cbimbi]

it was probably one of the songs John Lennon played int his teens

[molliebawn]

SONG ABOUT VIETNAM.....WITH THE WORDS....I HAVE 2 LOVELY DAUGHTERS THANK GOD I HAVE NO SONS ........ DONT KNOW THE NAME OF IT

[Rovarin]

@molliebawn I think the song is called Penny Evans

[neonmeat1]

Please help!

I am looking for another Lonnie Donegan song with similar themes but slower that I swear I have heard on this here youtube but I can't remember what it is called and I'm going slightly wrong now. Please any suggestions as to what it might be would be appreciated! Thanks

[neonmeat1]

@neonmeat1 Ha figured it out: 'Railroad Bill'.

Check it out it's a tune!

[hirundine608]

It was the first song learnt from the radio and Uncle Mac.

[KnightTheory]

Great Version!

[yukonnahanni]

I AGREE WITH ALL COMMENTS HERE :)) But, just found it so strange, that after all the years that have passed & the history, that a Song, extolling a person , who, murdered a young Girl, would become a Folk song & still be sung ??? with his name as the Title,, perhaps, better Laura's name should be included ??

[witchkiwi]

@yukonnahanni

if you think is strange, try listening to Strange Fruits by Billie Holiday.

[UncleBoko]

Best version of this song.

[UandMeKid]

One of the beauties of folk music is that 10 different artists can sing the same song and there will be 10 totally different interpretations of it.

[sessnazx]

Das ist die Geschichte von Tom Dooley aus Tennessee und seinem Ende. Er liebte die Frau eines anderen, doch weil sie nicht... Vielen Dank....

[Rikkyhardo]

Sie sind willkommen

thanks to Babelfish translation :~)

[deauv]

First record i bought when i was a young lad.

[mountnmonkey]

I sure enjoyed those great pictures and the history lesson. 5 stars from Wild and Wonderful West Virginia..

[sessnazx]

Ein schönes altes Lied, nur leider viel zu wahr.

Es gab, gibt und wird sicherlich noch viele Tom Dooleys geben,

Vielen Dank...

[billyshake]

To the OP, great work on the image compilation and good choice of version. Thanks, amigo.

[Rikkyhardo]

Thanks for that glowing tribute billyshake mate ... keep on reading Steven King, he never fails to keep your nose to the page.

[dannysamurai]

good video :)

[oliveralice48]

Fantastic....my favourite Lonnie track and easily the best version. great vocal and wirebrush harmonies, takes me back to when I was a kid playing all my dads skiffle 78's....brilliant

[25svbn]

That's Van Morrison in that picture of the tree fellows at the end. The fellow on the right.

[oliveralice48]

Surely Van the Man can never look so grumpy as that chap.....but then again from a different angle !!!!!!

[25svbn]

Yes I'm not positive, but I just looked at it again and it sure does look like him. In any event it's a great track, great video and even greater saga.

[Rikkyhardo]

I think when I souced the pic it had Van Morrison as that guy ... now I am trying to remember who the other geezer is

[billyshake]

Really? (about van morrison being in that pic) That's cool. I would never have saw that. Thanks.

[elfinia]

This is the first song I remember singing, aged five , standing on the bed "playing" the back of my hairbrush. I knew all the words and melancholy they were !

[Rikkyhardo]

same here ... I loved this song, one of the first pop songs that I knew the words to and kept singing ... it was another song that me mam thought was inapropriate (is that how ya spell it?)

[Pahrao2005]

Wundervoll!!!!!!

[ajryj]

GD VID