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Day 183 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
This is the first song in the "Southern Mountains" chapter of Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag. Sandburg has two versions of this song: two tunes and two sets of lyrics.
Way Up on Clinch Mountain (A) is better known as "Rye Whisky" with the last phrase, "Rye whisky, rye whisky, You're no friend to me."
Sandburg writes: "This song has a thousand verses, perhaps going back to the Scotch of the 17th century, we are told."
Day 183 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
This is the first song in the "Southern Mountains" chapter of Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag. Sandburg has two versions of this song: two tunes and two sets of lyrics.
Way Up on Clinch Mountain (A) is better known as "Rye Whisky" with the last phrase, "Rye whisky, rye whisky, You're no friend to me."
Sandburg writes: "This song has a thousand verses, perhaps going back to the Scotch of the 17th century, we are told."
