4. Johnny Cash – Banks Of The Ohio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banks_of_the_Ohio
„Banks of the Ohio“ ( Laws F5, Roud 157) is a 19th century murder ballad, written by unknown authors, in which „Willie“ invites his young lover for a walk during which she rejects his marriage proposal. Once they are alone on the river bank, he murders the young woman. It is also known by the longer title Down On The Banks Of The Ohio
The first recording of the song was by Red Patterson’s Piedmont Log Rollers on August 12, 1927. The song has since been recorded numerous times, such as by New Lost City Ramblers, The Wolfe Tones, G. B. Grayson and Henry Whitter (as „I’ll Never Be Yours“), Ernest Stoneman, Clayton McMichen, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, The Carter Family, Blue Sky Boys (whose version, performed in 1936, appears in the soundtrack of the 1973 film Paper Moon), Johnny Cash, Porter Wagoner, Pete Seeger, Monroe Brothers, Joan Baez, Olivia Newton-John (with Mike Sammes, in 1971, her second commercial single in the United States), Dave Guard and the Whiskeyhill Singers, Mike Ireland and Holler, The Callagan Brothers, and Doc Watson, with slightly different lyrics when sung by a female. The song is similar in subject to „Pretty Polly“, and likely tells the same story (Both songs date from approximately the same time, tell roughly the same story, and feature a villain named „Willie“).
Another not so well known version of the song is entitled „On the Banks of the Old Pedee.“
The song and its title served as the theme song for, and title of, a long-running radio series broadcast of bluegrass music on WAMU-PBS and Bluegrass Country, hosted by Fred Bartenstein and produced for the International Bluegrass Music Museum, near the Ohio River in Owensboro, Kentucky.
Banks Of Ohio
I asked my love to take a walk
Take a walk just a little ways
And as we walked, along we talk
All would be our wedding day
And only say that you’ll be mine
In no others arms entwined
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the Ohio
I asked her if she’d marry me
And my wife forever be
She only turned her head away
And had no other words to say
And only say that you’ll be mine
In no others arms entwined
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the Ohio
I plunged a knife into her breast
And told her she was going to rest
She cried „Oh Willy, don’t murder me
I’m not prepared for eternity“
I took her by her golden curls
And drug her down to the river side
And there I threw her into drown
And I watched her as she floated down
And only say that you’ll be mine
In no others arms entwined
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the Ohio
And going home between twelve and one
I cried „Oh Lord, what have I’ve done?“
I’ve killed the only girl I love
Because she would not marry me
And only say that you’ll be mine
In no others arms entwined
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the Ohio
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