March Down to Old Tennessee
Jean Ritchie * Track #21 On Something to Sing About
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Album Something to Sing About
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- #4
Candy Man BluesMississippi John Hurt
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- #10
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- #11Wimoweh
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- #13Minstrel Boy
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- #14When First Unto This Country
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- #15
All My TrialsJoan Baez
- #16Little Mohee
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- #17
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- #18
The FoxThe Smothers Brothers
- #19Hush, Little Baby
Milton Okun
- #20March Down to Old Tennessee
Jean Ritchie
- #21Old Macdonald Had a Farm
John Denver
- #22
Power and the GloryPhil Ochs
- #23
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The Virgin MaryThe Chad Mitchell Trio
- #25Forest Lawn
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The Chad Mitchell Trio
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- #28Peat Bog Soldiers/Die Moorsoldaten
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- #29
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- #30The Day Is Past and Gone
Jean Ritchie
- #31Go from My Window
Ronnie Gilbert
- #32Spanish Is the Loving Tongue
Tom Paxton
- #33Danville Girl
Tom Paxton
- #34Dear Companion
Jean Ritchie
- #35The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry
John Denver
March Down to Old Tennessee by Jean Ritchie
Performed by
Jean RitchieAbout
This song was a traditional song used in a kissing game by Ritchie’s family members in their childhoods. It was saved from oblivion by her aunt Mary Ritchie, who in Ritchie’s words, ‘Couldn’t carry a tune’, but who prompted her parents to recall the song, and to teach it to her.
March Down to Old Tennessee Lyrics
Here stands a couple, joined hearts and hands
He wants a wife, and she wants a man
Soon they will get married, if they can agree
They'll march down to old Tennessee, and married they will be
Now we must part, oh now we must part
Parting makes me lonely, it nearly breaks my heart
Yonder she comes, and it's "Howdy howdy do
How have you been since i parted with you."
Very well oh very well oh very well I say
Oh could we have met, to pass another day
I hear the bugle sounding and i must bid adieu
So give me one sweet kiss to remind me of you
Here stands a couple, joined hearts and hands
He wants a wife, and she wants a man
Soon they will get married, if they can agree
They'll march down to old Tennessee, and married they will be