Today, in honor of the US Democrat nominee for President:
Mark Erelli sings Blue-eyed Boston Boy:
He was just a blue eyed Boston boy
His voice was low with pain
I'll do your bidding comrade mine
If I ride back again
But if you ride on and I should fall
You'll do as much for me
Mother at home is awaiting the news
So write her tenderly
.....Straight way was the course to the top of the hill
The rebels they shot with shot and shell
Ploughed furrows of death through the toiling ranks
And guarded them as the fell
There soon came a horrible dying sound
From the heights they could not gain
And those that doom and death had spared
Rose slowly back again[Blue-Eyed Boston Boy, from Memorial Hall Recordings, 2002]
While Blue-Eyed Boston Boy is a traditional tune that reminds me of one of themes of the Convention in Boston: Revolution, in fact, Blue-Eyed Boston Boy is a Civil War song that has its origins in Kentucky and Arkansas.
Other folks who have recorded this song include Mike Seeger, Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerard, Jerry Garcia and David Grisman,and Bob Dylan.
Posted by heartandmind at July 29, 2004 06:31 AM