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Leadbelly ‎– Goodnight Irene. Label: Tradition ‎– TCD 1006.

Goodnight, Irene Lyrics. I asked your mother for you She tole me that you was too young I wish to the good Lord that I'd never seen your face I'm sorry that you ere were born. Irene good night Irene good night Good night Irene Good night Irene I'll get you in my dreams. Sometimes I live in the country Sometimes I live in town Sometimes I haves a great notion Jumping in to the river and drown. Irene good night Irene good night Good night Irene Good night Irene I'll get you in my dreams

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Peter from Toronto, Canada"Goodnight Irene" didn't get Leadbelly out of jail. It was his "Governor Neff" song, which he sang to Governor Pat Neff of Texas, about how he'd release the Governor if their positions were reversed. Although Governor Neff had sworn never to pardon a prisoner, was so overcome by the song that he released the murderous Leadbelly. Hence the legends of Leadbelly's dangerous charisma. Adrienne from Santa Barbara, CaMy dad brought a Leadbelly album home from the library in 1963 and my mom and I thought he was nuts

Is Goodnight Irene the best album by Leadbelly? BestEverAlbums. com brings together thousands of 'greatest ever album' charts and calculates an overall ranking. This album At A Glance. Goodnight Irene by Leadbelly (1996) Compilation Overall rank: 11,455th. Accolades: Top albums of 1996 (276th). Top albums of the 1990s (2,262nd). Best albums of all time (11,455th).

Leadbelly was a living, breathing musical history lesson, able to sing almost any type of folk or blues song imaginable, and he also sang folk-gospel pieces, fiddle tunes, children’s rhymes, and work songs as well as penning (usually by shifting new words to old melodies) several bona fide classics like Good Night Irene, which have become folk songs by more than. There are countless collections of Leadbelly on the market, and this one isn’t a whole lot different, which isn’t really a problem, since with Leadbelly you get Leadbelly, and four of his signature standards, Goodnight Irene, The Gallis Pole, The Bourgeois Blues, and Bring Me a L'il Water Silvy are here.

Goodnight Irene" Lives On. After Leadbelly's "discovery" and consequent fame from the song in the 1940s, The Weavers picked it up and hit number one with it in 1950, a year after Leadbelly's death. Since then, it's also been recorded by Ry Cooder, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, The Chieftains, Eric Clapton, Tom Waits, and Peter, Paul, and Mary, to name a few. If you would like to hear one of Leadbelly's recordings of the song, this YouTube video is believed to be from 1935 and takes place in Wilton, Connecticut. Leadbelly was known for a number of great.

Goodnight Irene by Leadbelly. Uke tabs from Goodnight Irene. chr10 Goodnight Irene. More albums from Leadbelly. Bourgeois Blues: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 2 (1997).