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    Adelaide Van Wey All Day Singin' - Louisiana and Smoky Mountain Ballads

    Smithsonian Folkways
      • 1. All Day Singin'
      • 2. The Cheat
      • 3. Birdie
      • 4. The Blackbird and the Crow
      • 5. Tan Patate-La Tchuite (When Your Potato's Done It's Time to Eat It)
      • 6. Fais Do Do (Go to Sleep)
      • 7. En Avant Granadie (Foward March, Grenadiers)
      • 8. Mon Cher Sabin
      • 9. Gue, Gue, Solingaie (Sweep the Dreampath Clear)

      On this collection, Adelaide Van Wey juxtaposes the Anglo-American ballads of the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina with songs from French Creole Louisiana. As the title track enjoins, "Bring along your fiddle and guitar too; come along Mary, oh, come along, do!"

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