I am still having problems with YouTube at home, but I am hoping to get last week’s videos up soon! Until then please enjoy BanjoStu’s AWESOME VERSION of Moutain Dew!!
Everyone should sing and play this song with this much PASSION!
Hopefully the problems will be sorted out soon and I’ll keep you updated.
This month’s Chicagoland Jam was also Jim Farley’s 50th birthday party. We had a great jam and the whole crowd was singing along on the choruses.
I’ll send out the info about the next Jam Session soon.
I have all the videos ready and done for this week, but my home internet and YouTube don’t like each other.
I am hoping to have everything up this weekend and maybe next week will be better.
I have another video from BanjoStu that should be up later today.
If all goes well, I’ll see you later,
Kelly
UPDATE: YouTube has done something crazy and I can’t fix it from work, so be patient for a few hours and I’ll get the video fixed.
This week’s Folk Song Of The Week is Old Plank Road. It only has two chords and it’s a great song to sing and play. It’s always a good idea to get everyone to sing along on the chorus and roar it out.
Old Plank Road
[G]Rather be in Richmond, midst all the hail and rain, Than for to be in Georgia boys, wearing that ball and chain
Chorus:
Won’t get drunk no more, won’t get drunk no [D7]more, [G]Won’t get
drunk no more, way [D7]down on the old plank [G]road
I went down to Mobile for to get on the gravel train, Very next thing heard of me, had on a ball and chain
Dony, oh dear Dony, what makes you treat me so? Caused me to wear the bail and chain, now my ankle’s sore
Knoxville is a pretty place, Memphis is a beauty If you want to see them some pretty girls, hop to Chattanoogie
I’m going to build a scaffold on some mountain high So I can see my Dora girl as she goes riding by
My wife died on Friday night, Saturday was buried Sunday was my courting day, Monday I was married
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Usually I do one take of my videos and leave it warts and all, but this time the audio was missing so I have to do it again.
I’m too tired tonight so I’ll do it in the morning before work.
See you all then,
Kelly
Today’s Irish Pub Song Of The Day is The Gypsy Rover or The Whistling Gypsy Rover. It’s a wonderful song and the same story is told in folk songs around the world.
Have fun and remember to play, love, learn, do, repeat, repeat, repeat!
The [G]gypsy [D7]rover came [G]over the [D7]hill
[G]Down through the [C]valley so [G]sha[D7]dy,
He [G]whistled and he [D7]sang till the [G]greenwoods [Em]rang,
And [G]he won the [C]heart of a [G]l[D7]a[G]dy.
Chorus:
Ah-de-do, ah-de-do-da-day,
Ah-de-do, ah-de-da-ay
He whistled and he sang ’til the greenwoods rang,
And he won the heart of a lady.
She left her father’s castle gates
She left her own fine lover
She left her servants and her state
To follow the gypsy rover.
Her father saddled up his fastest steed
And roamed the valleys all over
Sought his daughter at great speed
And the whistling gypsy rover.
He came at last to a mansion fine,
Down by the river Claydee
And there was music and there was wine,
For the gypsy and his lady.
“He is no gypsy, my father” she said
“But lord of these lands all over,
And I shall stay ’til my dying day
With my whistling gypsy rover.”
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I have a lot to do, but since I actually got a Saturday off, I spent it the best way I know how….letting Omega sleep on my lap all day. It’s been 10 hours and he keeps coming back and falling asleep.
What can I say, life is good.
I got an email from Stan in Tennessee asking if there was a way to make BanjoMania mobile web friendly.
I did a quick check and found that I could do it quite easily.
Now when you visit BanjoMania on a mobile web browser you will get the mobile web version. If you wish to change back to the regular version, all you have to do is click on the link at the bottom of the page.
Have fun and I’ll see you on Monday,
Kelly
It’s time to finish up with Basic Frailing Techniques and What To Look For In A Teacher.
I’ll be back on Monday with the Irish Pub Song Of The Day and then on to the Folk Song Of The Week.
It’s been a while, but instead of coming back with the Irish Pub Song Of The Day or Folk Song Of The Week, I wanted to answer some questions from emails I’ve been getting.
I decided to give a very quick workshop on basic frailing techniques and what to look for in a teacher. I hope it helps out some people and puts you on the right track.
Next week everything goes back to normal and Monday will be The Irish Pub Song Of The Day!!!