The Statler Brothers - Shenandoah

From a TV special in 1969, The Statler Brothers sing Shenandoah. Sadly lead singer Lew DeWitt died in 1990 of Crohn's Disease.

[lyrics]
Oh Shenandoah I long to see you away you rolling river
Oh Shenandoah I long to see you
Away I'm bound the way cross the wide Missouri
Oh Shenandoah I love your daughter away you rolling river
Oh Shenandoah I love your daughter
Away I'm bound the way cross the wide Missouri
[ guitar ]
For seven years I've been a rover away you rolling river
Seven years I've been a rover
Away I'm bound the way cross the wide Missouri
Away I'm bound the way cross the wide Missouri


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[mezooo2020]

This is better than Lady Gaga =)

[TheOneThatFlewOver]

I love this song and most of its arrangements. This is a great tempo for it. Anyone who thinks this is the best or the worst is a failure. It simply is.

[oldermusiclover]

i wish someone would post The Browns version of this tune

[sugarfoot59]

@rockandrollronnie I can do that, I guess I'm just biased, as for me personally, Shenandoah just shouts Virginia, as I don't know of anyplace else that, that name conjures up.

[rockandrollronnie]

@sugarfoot59 Do a Wickipedia search on Shenandoah. There are several theories to what this song refers to. The song is probably two hundred years old. You really have the liberty to put your own theory to it. Whatever, it is a great & haunting song. Ronnie

[sugarfoot59]

@rockandrollronnie And.......That means, what?......yep, Virginia! I know I certainly don't think of Ohio, Pennsylvania or West Virginia or anywhere else.......do you?

[sugarfoot59]

@rockandrollronnie Yep, I hear ya. But, exactly WHAT does this song refer to, if it isn't The Valley! I mean, the Shenandoah is the river too, but it does, after all, flow through the Valley, and is, more or less, synonymous with the Valley, so I suppose it could be the river, but heck, they're almost one in the same. When one hears about the Shenandoah, automatically you shift gears into thinking one of two things immediately....The Valley OR, The River.

[rockandrollronnie]

@sugarfoot59 I know exactly how you feel. Being a native Virginian I love this song and of course the Statler Brothers. Although this song does not directly relate to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, in my mind it always will. 

[sugarfoot59]

Although far from there now, I never hear this song, that it doesn't bring back some of the most pleasant memories of my youth. Growing up in the Shenandoah, Front Royal, Va., I have a very reverent feeling about the land, the Valley, I left.

[BuckshotLaFunke1]

No! Wrong chords.

[enmaxus]

Beautiful