{"id":7086,"date":"2007-05-01T00:13:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T04:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2008-04-10T08:58:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T12:58:50","slug":"the-butchers-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7086","title":{"rendered":"The Butcher&#8217;s Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Butchers_Boy.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I<br \/>\ndownload this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Butchers_Boy.mp3\">The Butcher&#8217;s Boy<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"about\">The Butcher&#8217;s Boy<br \/>\n  Buell Kazee recorded this on January 16, 1928 in New York City. The original recording was included on Harry Smith&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/morning\/features\/2002\/jul\/anthology\/\">Anthology of American Folk Music<\/a>&#8221; Originally released in 1952 on a six LP set and again in 1997 on a six CD set. The &#8220;Harry Smith Anthology&#8221; was the cornerstone of the folk revival of the 50s and 60s. I didn&#8217;t own a copy but learned many of these songs second hand at places like the Gaslight in Greenwich Village. &#8220;The Butcher&#8217;s Boy&#8221; is another of the sad ending songs popular in Appalachian love ballads. I love the G modal banjo tuning on this.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n   BUTCHER&#8217;S BOY<\/p>\n<p>She went upstairs to make her bed<br \/>\nAnd not one word to her mother said<\/p>\n<p>Her mother she went upstairs too<br \/>\nSaying, &#8220;Daughter, oh daughter, what troubles you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell<br \/>\nThat butcher&#8217;s boy I love so well<\/p>\n<p>He courted me my life away<br \/>\nAnd now at home he will not stay&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a place in London town<br \/>\nWhere that butcher&#8217;s boy goes and sits down<\/p>\n<p>He takes that strange girl on his knee<br \/>\nAnd tells to her what he won&#8217;t tell me&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her father he came up from work<br \/>\nSaying, &#8220;Where is my daughter, she seems so hurt&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He went upstairs to give her hope<br \/>\nAnd found her hanging from a rope<\/p>\n<p>He took his knife and cut her down<br \/>\nAnd in her bosom these words were found<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go dig my grave both wide and deep<br \/>\nPlace a marble slab at my head and feet<\/p>\n<p>And over my coffin, place a snow white dove<br \/>\nTo warn the world that I died of love\n <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Butcher&#8217;s Boy The Butcher&#8217;s Boy Buell Kazee recorded this on January 16, 1928 in New York City. The original recording was included on Harry Smith&#8217;s &#8220;Anthology of American Folk Music&#8221; Originally released in 1952 on a six LP set and again in 1997 on a six CD &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7086\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Butcher&#8217;s Boy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8699,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/8699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}