The soap opera report is that Foster had a venereal disease Reckon where I'll be. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. Whether that is true or false, Foster was Dula was hung on May 1 — and . quarter notes in each measure, and with an odd mix of eighths and And there you hid her clothes. They are largely responsible for the popularity of Rose record the most famous song about that murder. To make her your wife, The story behind “Tom Dooley” – the 1866 murder of Laura Foster by Tom Dula in Elkville, North Carolina – is particularly ugly. Down in some lonesome valley hangin' from a white oak tree. tune. Hang your head Tom Dooley G Hang your head and cry D7 G You killed poor Laurie Foster C G And you know you're bound to die C You took her on the hillside G For to make her your wife D7 G You took her on the hillside C G And there you took her life C You dug the … sounds.... [CLICK HERE probably call post-traumatic stress disorder; he seemed to have no real give a banjo rather than a guitar tab, but what I do with this song is The story behind this song is fairly well known. contracted from Grayson). to In the documentary Appalachian Journey (1991), folklorist Alan Lomax describes Frank Proffitt as the "original source" for the song, which was misleading only in that he didn't write it. Capo II [Refrain] D Hang down your head Tom Dooley, A7 Hang down your head and cry, Hang down your head Tom Dooley, D Poor boy, you're bound to die, [Verse] D I met her on the mountain, A7 and there I took her life, Met her on the mountain, D stabbed her with my knife, [Refrain] D Hang down your head Tom Dooley, A7 Hang down your head and cry, Hang down your head Tom Dooley, D Poor … There are several earlier known recordings, notably one that Grayson and Whitter made in 1929, approximately 10 years before Proffitt cut his own recording. "Tom Dooley" fits within the wider genre of Appalachian "sweetheart murder ballads". Hang down your head, Tom Dooley, Hang down your head and cry. Playlist, Written by: Alan Lomax, Frank Warner, John A. Lomax. which he claimed sole guilt. It's interesting to note that, melodically, Grayson's two biggest And play it all you please. more », The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s. a murdered on or about January 25, 1866. significant. (possibly This next one tells the story of Mister Grayson, a beautiful woman, and a condemned man named Tom Dooley. The Canyon Agoura Hills, Agoura Hills, CA. Grayson (who, like Proffitt, came from western North Carolina, where It 'II be no use to me. You took her by the roadside This time tomorrow. And throwed the cold clay o'er her You took her on the hillside As God almighty knows, You took her on the hillside And there you hid her clothes. The song was selected as one of the American Songs of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. He hooked up first A local poet named Thomas Land wrote a song about the tragedy, titled "Tom Dooley" (which was how Dula's name was pronounced), shortly after Dula was hanged. too pretty to die. I dug a grave four feet long, She passed it to Dula, who passed it to This world and one more, the next-to-last measure, but the A minor chord in at the end of the Copyright: Writer(s): Alan Lomax, Frank Warner, John Richard Lomax, Julie Anne Evans Lyrics Terms of Use. Thomas C. Dula was You took her on the hillside Hang down your head, Tom Dooley, Poor boy, youre bound to die!

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