Bela Lam & Family - Poor Little Benny

[omgaflyingmonkey]

Amazing music, with passion and some natural talent, i love me some american and bluegrass.

[rocket88ize]

This is from Virginia Roots Music. A colletion of recordings made in 1929 or about, to capture the sound of the time. This piece is my great-great-grandparents with my mom sitting on the chair. They were called the Greene County Singers.The Carter Family was there competion.

[darcyperkins]

my mother was born and raised in rural quebec, canada in the 1940s and 50s. she played piano by ear and when i was a child she used to sing and play all different songs to me at night (including this one) which i later found out were all popular folk and country and western songs from the 1920s to 60s. wicked!

[MaryRosewood]

Father, dear Father, come home with me now

The clock in the steeple strikes one

You said you were coming right home from the shop

As soon as your day's work was done

The fire is all out, the house is all dark

And Mother's been watching since tea

With poor little Benny so sick in her arms

And no one to help her but me

Come home, come home, come home

Please Father, dear Father, come home

[agingstoner]

Is the little girl singing or just trying to keep from falling off the chair? Great stuff!

[Ullarobinlilly]

Oh I love it!!! Thanxx from Berlin/ Germany

[kcnccarolina]

Amazing, love seeing my 'ol neighbors, they would be a super act @ our karaoke place.

[TomStrong08]

I would totally rock that moustache.

[specialedd13]

i dont think anyone can beat him though

[austinitesince1979]

Wild! The damage that the recording has received over the years makes it even psychedelic. I'm gonna have to learn this one. Sounds like the old C tuning on the banjo?

[frailer2007]

Yes it's the standard C except dropped a fret to B.

[mandoniaa]

Captivating!

[Latexbrother]

nice one!...

[cosmicquestgirl]

thank you!!