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Asa Martin, vocal and guitar; Jim Gaskin, fiddle; Buz Braezele, autoharp; Earl Thomas, banjo - On Greenland Mountain

from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 5: Grown on American Soil by Field Recorders' Collective

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On Greenland Mountain there once did dwell
A youthful lad that I knew so well.

Refrain:
Right-toodle-ling-a-day (4)

This youthful laddie one day did go
Way down in yonder meadow to mow.

He had only mown half way 'round the field
When a serpent popped him on the heel.

He turned around to see what was best
And he jumped in the middle of a hornet’s nest.

So they took him home to his Molly dear
And made him feel so mighty queer.

“Oh, Tommy dearie, what made you go
Way down in yonder meadow to mow?”

“Oh Molly dearie, now don’t you know?
It was daddy’s hay and it had to be mowed.”

Poor Laddie ’s dead now, he’s in his grave
But he’s numbered up among the brave.

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from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 5: Grown on American Soil, released August 7, 2023
Recorded by Mark Wilson and Gus Meade, Irvine, KY, 12/72.

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