Good ole' bluegrass


Posted On: Monday - November 20th 2017 8:58PM MST
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Since I mentioned the "Wildwood Weed", a take-off on the original "Wildwood Flower", here are Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Most of their stuff is banjo music (Lester Flatt picking), but this is a guitar song:



That's too short to end the post, so here's another standard bluegrass number, "Rocky Top" by the Osborne Brothers of Kentucky, written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and released and performed back in late 1967.



Peak Stupidity got you down? There's always the bluegrass music, and some of that corn from those jars there (man, were those guys some hardcore preppers!... wait ...)

"Wish that I was on ol' Rocky Top
down in the Tennessee hills.
Ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top;
ain't no telephone bills
Once I had a girl on Rocky Top
half bear, other half cat,
wild as a mink, but sweet as soda pop
I still dream about that.

Rocky Top, you'll always be
home sweet home to me.
Good ol' Rocky Top,
Rocky Top, Tennessee Rocky Top, Tennessee.

Once two strangers climbed ol' Rocky Top
lookin' for a moonshine still.
Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top;
reckon they never will.

Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top;
dirt's too rocky by far.
That's why all the folks on Rocky Top
get their corn from a jar.

Rocky Top, you'll always be
home sweet home to me.
Good ol' Rocky Top,
Rocky Top, Tennessee Rocky Top, Tennessee.

I've had years of cramped-up city life
trapped like a duck in a pen.
All I know is it's a pity life
can't be simple again.

Rocky Top, you'll always be
home sweet home to me.
Good ol' Rocky Top,
Rocky Top, Tennessee Rocky Top, Tennessee.
Rocky Top, Tennessee - eee - eee - eee.

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