Three brown girls + one Chinese guy = an odd party, to be sure

It's a YouTube Wednesday!



My Society ISU ("Action Research Project") is killing me. It is LITERALLY MURDERING ME. Soon I will die, by which I mean, figuratively that is, I will be finished high school, and then skellingtons, skellingtons will come, by which I not only make a reference to John Allison ("The Englishman")'s fine daily comic Scary Go Round, but I mean I will write a new poem for you to read, which to me is not always a good thing, but to you it may be. Until then, here are some song lyrics and a nice video:

My Darlin' Corey Is Gone

(heartbreaking Bela Fleck banjo intro, outlining the melody)

The wind's through the night,
Blowin' so lonesome,
Singin' me a song.
The whippoorwill's call
Is just a reminder:
Pretty girls have hearts made of stone.

CHORUS:
Awake with the blues at dawn,
My darlin' Corey is gone.
I don't know why she told me goodbye
But my darlin' Corey is gone.

(heartbreaking Bela Fleck banjo solo, with a natural harmonic restating of the melody)

The ring that she wears
I bought for her finger;
I purchased that ring with fire.
Gave her my last
Greenback dollar,
And now she's left me behind.

CHORUS

(fiddle solo, guitar solo, heartbreaking banjo solo)

Drifting along,
Like crutch on a river,
Caring not where I roam.
I'm going to live
In the deep forest,
Dark Hollow will be my home.

CHORUS

(mandolin solo)

My darlin' Corey is gone.

I know there's no real point to posting lyrics, but I have this Quixotic desire to do so. If you want to know how the song goes, call me up and I'll sing it for you. This is a song that I love to sing.

Here is another banjo song, this one you can watch and listen to. Kermit the Frog feat. Debbie Harry - Rainbow Connection. Enjoy!



Love it.