Worried Man Blues - The Stanley Brothers 🪕 Pete Seeger - (Song for one very worried man)

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The Stanley Brothers perform on Pete Seger's Rainbow Quest TV Show 1965.

🎶 Bluegrass Lyrics, Worried Man Blues

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song
I’m worried now but I won’t be worried long

I went across the river and I laid down to sleep
I went across the river and I laid down to sleep
I went across the river and I laid down to sleep

When I woke up, there were shackles on my feet

Twenty one links of chain around my leg
Twenty one links of chain around my leg
Twenty one links of chain around my leg

And on each link, the initials of my name

I asked the judge what’s gonna be my fine
I asked the judge what’s gonna be my fine
I asked the judge what’s gonna be my fine

Twenty one years on the Rocky Mountain Line

If anyone should ask you who composed this song say it was me and I'll sing it all day long
https://www.bluegrasslyrics.com/song/worried-man-blues/
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Ralph and Carter performed as The Stanley Brothers with their band, The Clinch Mountain Boys, from 1946 to 1966. Ralph kept the band name when he continued as a solo artist after Carter's death, from 1967 until his own death in 2016. Carter and Ralph Stanley were born on a small farm in Dickenson County, Virginia.
Music was a part of their lives even in their early years, and they listened to the Monroe Brothers, J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers and the Grand Ole Opry on local radio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanley_Brothers

[Sneederbunk]

1. Another version

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[appalachiablue]

2. Thank you! Luv the Kingston Trio. Nice.

[The Polack MSgt]

3. I remember hearing a better version on YouTube, but I can't find it. The Carter Family with Johnny

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[Figarosmom]

4. Great banjo

Reminds me of my relatives in west Virginia when they'd get together on the porch and play and sing. They always said they weren't Appalachian they were from the Monongahela Valley. I guess so sine a tributary of rhe Monongahela River ran through the lower pasture.

[Figarosmom]

5. Heres my favorite

Of the bluegrass variety

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