Re: Revamped Traditional Folk music
I too believed that this was a traditional song from the Revolutionary War. I have this album, TONIGHT, IN PERSON both on vinyl and cd. I had not played it for years. Last year I was looking for a song for my group, The Ramblers, and stumbled across it. Suddenly the name John Stewart appeared. I had never known that before. Interestingly, to my knowledge he never recorded it himself and I have all of his CD,s and vinyl. Last year at Trio Fantasy Camp I ask John if he indeed authored this song. His response with a grin was..."My name is on there isn't it?" Then I ask how come he had never recorded it himself? He said that he had written it back in '60 or '61 exclusively for the Limeliters. End of story...No. John has a lot of unreleased material out there that he recorded, mostly in old tapes. That song could be among them.
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