50+ Music · @50years
21 followers · 2606 posts · Server musicworld.social"Gotta Travel On" is an American #folksong. The earliest known version was printed in #CarlSandburg's #TheAmericanSongbag in 1927 under the title "Yonder Comes the High Sheriff" and several variations were recorded in the 1920s, but the best known version is credited to #PaulClayton, #TheWeavers, Larry Ehrlich, and Dave Lazer and was first recorded by #PeteSeeger in 1958.A cover by #BillyGrammer reached #4 on the #USPopChart, #5 on the #USCountryChart.
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#folksong #carlsandburg #theamericansongbag #paulclayton #theweavers #peteseeger #billygrammer #uspopchart #uscountrychart
Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
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#January 6, 1878
#OTD #CarlSandburg, American #Poet & #Writer, is born.
His Galesburg, Illinois, birthplace has a #Garden & a boulder marking his remains.
Plain-spoken & direct, Carl wrote an American #Fairytale book called #Rootabaga Stories in which he wrote,
"Life is like an #Onion.
You peel it off one layer at a time, & sometimes you #Weep."
His #Poem, Accomplished Facts, begins:
"Every year #EmilyDickinson sent one friend
the first #Arbutus bud in her garden."
#january #otd #carlsandburg #poet #writer #garden #fairytale #rootabaga #onion #weep #poem #emilydickinson #arbutus #poetry #Mayflower