Down on the Banks of the Ohio
The Blue Sky Boys * Track #3 On Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume 4
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Album Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume 4
- #1Memphis Shakedown
Memphis Jug Band
- #2Dog and Gun (An Old English Ballad)
Bradley Kincaid
- #3Down on the Banks of the Ohio
The Blue Sky Boys
- #4Adieu False Heart
Arthur Smith (Bluegrass Fiddler)
- #5Nine Pound Hammer Is Too Heavy
The Monroe Brothers
- #6Southern Casey Jones
Jesse James (Blues)
- #7Packin’ Trunk
Lead Belly
- #8Stand By Me
Clara Hudman
- #9West Virginia Gals
Al Hopkins and his Buckle Busters
- #10Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train
Uncle Dave Macon
- #11Governor Al Smith
Uncle Dave Macon
- #12He’s In the Ring (Doing the Same Old Thing)
Memphis Minnie
- #13The Cockeyed World
Minnie Wallace
- #14Barbecue Bust
Blind Roosevelt Graves
- #15Dans Le Grand Bois (in the Forest)
Hackberry Ramblers
Down on the Banks of the Ohio by The Blue Sky Boys
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The Blue Sky BoysDown on the Banks of the Ohio Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Come my love let’s take a walk
Just a little way that way
While we walk along, we’ll talk
Talk about our wedding day
[Chorus]
Only say that you’ll be mine
And in our home we’ll happy be
Down beside where the waters flow
Down on the banks of the Ohio
[Verse 2]
I drew my knife across her throat
And to my breast she gently pressed
Oh please, oh please don’t you murder me
For I’m unprepared to die you see
[Verse 3]
I taken her by her lily white hand
I led her down in a bed of sand
There I plunged her in to drown
And watched her as she floated down
[Verse 4]
Return home ‘tween twelve and one
Thinking of the deed I’d done
I murdered a girl I love you see
Because she would not marry me
[Chorus]
Only say that you’ll be mine
And in our home we’ll happy be
Down beside where the waters flow
Down on the banks of the Ohio
[Verse 5]
Next day as I returning home
I met the Sheriff standing in the door
He said, “young man come with me and go
Down to the Banks of the Ohio”
[Chorus]
Only say that you’ll be mine
And in our home we’ll happy be
Down beside where the waters flow
Down on the banks of the Ohio
Down on the Banks of the Ohio Q&A
When did The Blue Sky Boys release Down on the Banks of the Ohio?
The Blue Sky Boys released Down on the Banks of the Ohio on Tue Jun 16 1936.