Uploaded February 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
love is an art form struck from the soul and transformed with blood and toil... with spirited measure loving embrace the harmonic sounds lovingly assuage the beast locked in it's cage...
I was introduced to a great singer Tennessee Ernie Ford by my friend Jack Marti and a version of wayfaring stranger.. from that I came across this song and as i mentioned .. it took me back to the first few moments of when i first picked up a guitar and started to play songs on the top string.. a bit like the moment of first light a few seconds after the big bang... the self indulgent ramble is nothing more than the reminisences of a star that has burnt more fuel than its got left..
Wiki: Oh Shenandoah" (also called simply "Shenandoah", or "Across the Wide Missouri") is a traditional American folk song of uncertain origin, dating at least to the early 19th century. The song is number 324 in the Roud Folk Song Index, but is not listed amongst the Child Ballads. 1895 Studies in Folk-song and Popular Poetry called it a "good specimen of a bowline chant". In his 1931 book on sea and river chanteys entitled Capstan Bars, David Bone wrote that "Oh Shenandoah" originated as a river chanty or shanty and then became popular with sea-going crews in the early 19th century.
The lyrics may tell the story of a roving trader in love with the daughter of an Indian chief; in this interpretation, the rover tells the chief of his intent to take the girl with him far to the west, across the Missouri River. Other interpretations tell of a pioneer's nostalgia for the Shenandoah River Valley in Virginia, or of a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War, dreaming of his country home in Virginia. The provenance of the song is unclear.
The song is also associated with escaped slaves. They were said to sing the song in gratitude because the river allowed their scent to be lost. The Shenandoah area made many parts like wheels and seats for wagons going west. These parts were assembled in Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and settlers set out in Conestoga wagons down the Ohio River, on the Mississippi and west up the Missouri River. Lyrics were undoubtedly added by rivermen, settlers, and the millions who went west.
love is an art form struck from the soul and transformed with blood and toil... with spirited measure loving embrace the harmonic sounds lovingly assuage the beast locked in it's cage...
I was introduced to a great singer Tennessee Ernie Ford by my friend Jack Marti and a version of wayfaring stranger.. from that I came across this song and as i mentioned .. it took me back to the first few moments of when i first picked up a guitar and started to play songs on the top string.. a bit like the moment of first light a few seconds after the big bang... the self indulgent ramble is nothing more than the reminisences of a star that has burnt more fuel than its got left..
Wiki: Oh Shenandoah" (also called simply "Shenandoah", or "Across the Wide Missouri") is a traditional American folk song of uncertain origin, dating at least to the early 19th century. The song is number 324 in the Roud Folk Song Index, but is not listed amongst the Child Ballads. 1895 Studies in Folk-song and Popular Poetry called it a "good specimen of a bowline chant". In his 1931 book on sea and river chanteys entitled Capstan Bars, David Bone wrote that "Oh Shenandoah" originated as a river chanty or shanty and then became popular with sea-going crews in the early 19th century.
The lyrics may tell the story of a roving trader in love with the daughter of an Indian chief; in this interpretation, the rover tells the chief of his intent to take the girl with him far to the west, across the Missouri River. Other interpretations tell of a pioneer's nostalgia for the Shenandoah River Valley in Virginia, or of a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War, dreaming of his country home in Virginia. The provenance of the song is unclear.
The song is also associated with escaped slaves. They were said to sing the song in gratitude because the river allowed their scent to be lost. The Shenandoah area made many parts like wheels and seats for wagons going west. These parts were assembled in Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and settlers set out in Conestoga wagons down the Ohio River, on the Mississippi and west up the Missouri River. Lyrics were undoubtedly added by rivermen, settlers, and the millions who went west.
