Biography:
The Carter Family was a country music group that performed and recorded between 1927 and 1943. Their music had a profound impact on later bluegrass, country, pop and rock musicians, as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s.
The original group consisted of Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter (A.P.; 1891-1960), his wife, Sara Dougherty Carter (autoharp and guitar; 1898-1979), and Maybelle Addington Carter (guitar; 1909-1978). Maybelle Carter (later popularly known as Mother Maybelle Carter) was married to A.
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- Wildwood Flower
- Anchored In Love
- Answer To Weeping Willow
- Are You Lonesome Tonight
- Are You Tired Of Me My Darlin
- Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow
- Can The Circle Be Unbroken
- Cannonball Blues
- Church In The Wildwood
- Crying Holy
- East Virginia Blues N 1
- Far Side Banks Of Jordan
- Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room
- Give Me The Roses While I Live
- Gold Watch And Chain
- Hello Central Give Me Heaven
- I Have An Aged Mother
- I Have No One To Love Me Anymore
- I Never Will Marry
- Im Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
- Jimmie Brown The Newsboy
- John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man
- Keep On The Sunny Side
- Lonesome For You
- My Clinch Mountain Home
- My Dixie Darling
- My Texas Girl
- On The Sea Of Galilee
- Single Girl Married Girl
- The Cyclone Of Rye Cove
- The Far Side Banks Of Jordan
- The Foggy Mountain Top
- The Mountains Of Tennessee
- The Wabash Cannonball
- The Western Hobo
- When Im Gone
- When The Worlds On Fire
- Where Well Never Grow Old
- Why Do You Cry Little Darling
- Will The Circle Be Unbroken
- Worried Man Blues
- You Tied A Love Knot In My Heart
- Youre Gonna Be Sorry You Let Me Down
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Recorded 1928 by the original Carter family, Maybelle, Sara and AP
[Introduction]
C F C F C F C G7 C
[Verse 1]
F C
John Hardy was a desperate little man,
F C
He carried two guns every day.
F C
He shot a man on the West Virginia line,
C G7 C G7 C
And you oughta seen John Hardy getting away.
[Verse 2]
F C
John Hardy, he got to the East Stone Bridge,
F C
He thought that he would be free.
F C
And up stepped a man and took him by the arm,
C G7 C G7 C
Saying, “Johnny, walk along with me !”
[Verse 3]
F C
He sent for his poppy and his mommy, too,
F C
to come and go his bail.
F C
But money won't go a murdering case,
C G7 C G7 C
and they locked John Hardy back in jail.
[Verse 4]
F C
John Hardy, he had a pretty little girl,
F C
that dress that she wore was blue,
F C
as she came skipping through the old jail hall,
C G7 C G7 C
saying, “Poppy, I've been true to you!”
[Verse 5]
F C
John Hardy, he had another little girl,
F C
that dress that she wore was red.
F C
She followed John Hardy to his hanging ground,
C G7 C G7 C
saying “Poppy, I would rather be dead !”
[Verse 6]
F C
I've been to the East, and I've been to the West ,
F C
I've been this wide world around,
F C
I've been to the river and I've been baptized,
C G7 C G7 C
and now I'm on my hanging ground.
[Verse 7]
F C
John Hardy walked out on his scaffold high,
F C
with his loving little wife by his side.
F C
And the last word she heard poor Johnno say,
C G7 C G7 C
“I'll meet you in that sweet by-and-by. “
[Outro]
C F C F C F C G7 C
Recorded 1928 by the original Carter family, Maybelle, Sara and AP
[Introduction]
C F C F C F C G7 C
[Verse 1]
F C
John Hardy was a desperate little man,
F C
He carried two guns every day.
F C
He shot a man on the West Virginia line,
C G7 C G7 C
And you oughta seen John Hardy getting away.
[Verse 2]
F C
John Hardy, he got to the East Stone Bridge,
F C
He thought that he would be free.
F C
And up stepped a man and took him by the arm,
C G7 C G7 C
Saying, “Johnny, walk along with me !”
[Verse 3]
F C
He sent for his poppy and his mommy, too,
F C
to come and go his bail.
F C
But money won't go a murdering case,
C G7 C G7 C
and they locked John Hardy back in jail.
[Verse 4]
F C
John Hardy, he had a pretty little girl,
F C
that dress that she wore was blue,
F C
as she came skipping through the old jail hall,
C G7 C G7 C
saying, “Poppy, I've been true to you!”
[Verse 5]
F C
John Hardy, he had another little girl,
F C
that dress that she wore was red.
F C
She followed John Hardy to his hanging ground,
C G7 C G7 C
saying “Poppy, I would rather be dead !”
[Verse 6]
F C
I've been to the East, and I've been to the West ,
F C
I've been this wide world around,
F C
I've been to the river and I've been baptized,
C G7 C G7 C
and now I'm on my hanging ground.
[Verse 7]
F C
John Hardy walked out on his scaffold high,
F C
with his loving little wife by his side.
F C
And the last word she heard poor Johnno say,
C G7 C G7 C
“I'll meet you in that sweet by-and-by. “
[Outro]
C F C F C F C G7 C
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