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"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.
"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 ...
He explains that he would proceed to go to Dumas Walker's "after the show" where Dumas and others would be shooting marbles behind the store. The call of "let's all go, down to Dumas Walker" then continues as the chorus is sung. Next, the singer describes Dumas Walker (played by Johnnie Johnson in the music video) as closely adhering to the law ...
Let's All Go Down the Strand" was popular with British soldiers in the First World War, alongside other music hall favourites such as "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" and Charles Whittle's "We All Go The Same Way Home". [11] The men of a London battalion are recorded as having sung it when up to their knees in mud near Ypres in 1917. [3]
Take This Job and Shove It is the seventeenth album released by country music artist Johnny Paycheck.It was his second album released in 1977 (see 1977 in country music) and is his most commercially successful album, being certified platinum by the RIAA.
The Small Price of a Bicycle is the second studio album by The Icicle Works.The album was released in 1985 and charted at number 55 in the UK [4] [5] [6] Despite the success of the band's first album in North America, it was not released in either the US or Canada, with Arista Records in the US memorably rejecting it as "punk-rock demos".
"Take This Job and Shove It" is a 1977 country music song written by David Allan Coe and popularized by Johnny Paycheck, about the bitterness of a man who has worked long and hard with no apparent reward. The song was first recorded by Paycheck on his album also
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic derides the album, calling it "overproduced, overwrought and under-written" and, while praising their rendition of Tom T. Hall's "Me and Jesus", laments that "the bombastic production gets a little nerve-wracking about halfway through the album, and by the end of the record the music hasn't provided much inspiration.