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"Down in the River to Pray" (Roud 4928, also known as "Down to the River to Pray," "Down in the Valley to Pray," "The Good Old Way," and "Come, Let Us All Go Down") is a traditional American song variously described as a Christian folk hymn, an African-American spiritual, an Appalachian song, and a Southern gospel song. The exact origin of the ...
One Sunday morning as I went walking, by the Brisbane's waters I chanced to stray, I heard a convict his fate bewailing, as on the sunny river bank he lay; I am a native of Erin's island but banished now to the fatal shore, They tore me from my aged parents and from the maiden I do adore.
"St. James Infirmary" on tenor sax "St. James Infirmary" is an American blues and jazz standard that emerged, like many others, from folk traditions. Louis Armstrong brought the song to lasting fame through his 1928 recording, on which Don Redman is named as composer; later releases credit "Joe Primrose", a pseudonym used by musician manager, music promoter and publisher Irving Mills. [1]
Way down upon the Suwannee River, Far, far away, There's where my heart is turning ever, There's where the old folks stay. All up and down the whole creation, Sadly I roam, Still longing for my childhood station, And for the old folks at home. Chorus All the world is sad and dreary Everywhere I roam. O dear ones, how my heart grows weary,
I went down to the river, I didn't mean to stay; But dere I see so many gals, I couldn't get away. And arter I been dere awhile, I tought I push my boat; But I tumbled in de river, and I find myself afloat. I git upon a flat boat, I cotch de Uncle Sam; Den I went to see de place where dey kill'd de Pakenham.
"As I Went Out One Morning" is a narrative song about a man who offers a hand to a woman in chains, but realizes that she wants more than he is offering, and that "she meant to do [him] harm." A character identified as Tom Paine then appears, "command[s] her to yield," and apologizes to the narrator for the woman's actions.
The plane went down in Mutiny Bay off Whidbey Island, roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of downtown Seattle and about halfway between Friday Harbor and its destination in Renton, just ...
"Let's All Go Down to the River" is a song originally recorded as a duet by American singers Jody Miller and Johnny Paycheck. The earliest known version of the song, titled "The Good Old Way," was published in Slave Songs of the United States in 1867.