Every man who works for hourly wages owes this man a great debt or gratitude. Union wages set the wages for all in the same trade. Woody attended union rallies where many men died at the hands of hired thugs and police hired my management.
My grade school music teacher taught us to sing this song. When I grew older, I realized the sadness the classic American odes conveyed. Songs like this one and like "You are my Sunshine". The music of a kind folk.
American traditions are very beautiful and profound and teach us many interesting things. Affectionate greetings. ua-cam.com/video/ScAgYdrN67w/v-deo.html *YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE* Guitar solo in the style of *Johnny Cash*
I never met my grandfather, who was Irish. My mom remembers him listening to this song in the 1930's, and crying. I wonder why it meant so much to him.
My mom would sing this song to me as s bed time song, it was our ritual. I just had to promise not to sob at all the sad parts, and what did this little girl, with such a tender heart do, I sobbed like a baby. Hahaha and we did this every night for as long as I can remember
Some people think this song refers to the Red River Valley in Texas and that the song must have been written by a Texan. But no, it refers to Manitoba's northern Red River Valley, and so was likely written by a Canadien. No one knows who wrote it, but it's origin is clearly from Canada. The song was known in at least 5 Canadien provinces before 1896, and has been traced as far back as the 1870's. Some speculate it may have been written during the 1870 Wolseley Expedition to Manitoba's northern Red River Valley.
Thank you for putting out the CORRECT story of this song. This is one of my favorite go-to humming songs, when I absentmindedly start humming when performing some task. So I recently found out what you so eloquently explain, not Texas, but Canada? Yes Canada to the North, not Texas to the South. Cowboys should not only be associated with the South West of the U. S. Wherever there were cattle ranches, there were cowboys. The original version of this very popular song, is not even about a man singing to his woman about love! This song is about a local Woman of the North, singing to her Soldier Lover, who was rotating to another post in the East and how lonely and sad She would be without Him, there in that Red River Valley of the North, where She was staying behind and probably never see Him again!
Remember the scene in "The Grapes of Wrath", where Ma Joad and Tom Joad danced to this? Lovely scene. Lovely movie. Lovely song. Lovely rendition. Thank you.
This song, in its many beautiful versions, appears in so many Hollywood "oaters," so I had always thought it referred to the Red River in Texas-Oklahoma. I just learned that it refers to the Red River of Manitoba, and is Manitoban in origin. Nothing less than a testament to the Canadian + American appreciation of the hardscrabble life on the prairie -- and of exquisite beauty within the starkness of life. Thank you for posting Woody Guthrie's rendition.
@@rayb.457 I had forgotten that! I read the Grapes of Wrath in … I now cannot remember which grade, I think 10th, in 1973-74, … and we watched the film! Thank you for the reminder.
While in a college library, I found a song book and RED RIVER VALLEY was in it...dating back about 300 years. Like many folk-songs, thru the years. I first remeber hearing it about 1949-50 and thought it was about my area. In Oklahoma, thr Red River was only 11 miles away.
Come and sit by my side if you love me Do not hasten to bid me adieu Just remember the Red River Valley And the cowboy who loved you so true Well they tell me my dear that your going. I will miss your bight eyes and your smile. For with you,are taking the sunshine, That has brightened my life for a while Come and sit by my side if you love me Do not hasten to bid me adieu Just remember the Red River Valley And the cowboy who loved you so true Solo As you go to your home by the ocean May you never forget those sweet hours That we spent in the Red River Valley And the love we exchanged mid the flowers Come and sit by my side if you love me Do not hasten to bid me adieu Just remember that Red River Valley And the cowboy who loved you so true I have waited along time my darling For those words you never would say Till at last my poor heart is breaking For they tell me your going away. Chorus.
Glad you liked it . It's impossible to find the lyrics of songs you like to sing with the lyrics . Totally agree . Would make life easier . Thanks ciaran
I always loved this song because of the grapes of wrath movie. That was made in the 30's and it always made me wonder how old that song was. Just a simple sad song. but great!
ART BRUGMAN...it's been awhile since you wondered about this song, but I read it in an old songbook published in the latter 18th century. It's an ole English ballad.
For some reason I remember the chorus as "Come and *walk* by my side if you love me." I haven't found a version, lately that puts it that way. I could be remembering it wrong; but there does seem to be a bit of general folksy variation in the lyrics from version to version.
More than a word of thanks. 'Vigilante Man', the true price of unemployment in Depression and Dustbowl hit America, sung as only Woody could. Never forget the cost of Capitalism.
Its red river valley definitely. I love the mandolin work . This is very similar to old time music which is considered old time music. I understand that Woody played music this way because that was the way hillbilly/country style was rendered then and today.
Funny, I know the tune in the german song: Nimm mich mit Kapitaen, auf die Reise. I think its from the 50th. They add other lyrics. So its been sung by Woody, wow. I love him.
@mattymraz The Red River of the North, as it's called, actually has its source in North Dakota/Minnesota, and flows north into Manitoba toward the Hudson Bay.
@reiligha I wouldn't say Dylan was imitating Woody, he was just heavily inspired by him, and it definitely shows in Dylan's music, they are great and unforgettable musicians.
@ajweberman This is all too true. I even heard an interview of his son Arlo about eight years ago when he was performing a show in Portland, OR. The DJ asked him how about that SOB Bush and how about gettin' out on the streets all angry, just like the good ol' '60s. Arlo hesitated, then said, "You know, sometimes you can take that too far." Well said, Arlo.
anyone know who was singing with woody on this song, he was also on some others with him, he was the perfect voice to go with him, i had heard before who it was but i have forgotten after all these years
Yes- and with the concessions workers won through the old unions being rolled back and wages decoupled from profits, we need unions now more than ever.
This song is very similar to "There's a chill on the hill tonight" (Moon Mullican), "Silver haired daddy of mine" (Gene Autry) and "Dear old sunny South by the sea" (Jimmie Rodgers).
Amerikában,lehettem volna ,akár cowboy is! Magyarországon, csak birkát és kecskét legeltettem!! egy része politikus lett, a többi meg "birka" maradt!!!!
@slowpokecat Agreed - Thanks Woody! - - - hey "slowpokecat" check out Paul Robesons "Joe Hill" on youtube (if you haven't already) . . . talk about union men & women owing thanks - WOW!
@TomThumbsBlues1965 Don't compare Bob Dylan to Woody Guthrie, and especially don't put Dylan first. Everybody knows Bob Dylan was just trying to imitate Woody Guthrie, and as great of a folks artist as he was, he's no Guthrie.
When I was a little my dad used to sing this song to us..
I'm 67yrs old now..
LoveUboth, dad and Woody
Every man who works for hourly wages owes this man a great debt or gratitude. Union wages set the wages for all in the same trade. Woody attended union rallies where many men died at the hands of hired thugs and police hired my management.
Cool how in this modern-futuristic age, you can come here & hear music like this, that would have otherwise been lost to the ages.
Going to see if I can buy this on Amazon and stream along with Guns N Roses
My grade school music teacher taught us to sing this song. When I grew older, I realized the sadness the classic American odes conveyed. Songs like this one and like "You are my Sunshine". The music of a kind folk.
American traditions are very beautiful and profound and teach us many interesting things. Affectionate greetings. ua-cam.com/video/ScAgYdrN67w/v-deo.html *YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE* Guitar solo in the style of *Johnny Cash*
This land is my land, this land is your land
I never met my grandfather, who was Irish. My mom remembers him listening to this song in the 1930's, and crying. I wonder why it meant so much to him.
my grandmother used to sing me this song. I miss you grandmother.
My mom would sing this song to me as s bed time song, it was our ritual. I just had to promise not to sob at all the sad parts, and what did this little girl, with such a tender heart do, I sobbed like a baby. Hahaha and we did this every night for as long as I can remember
I was gigging last night and a doctor got up and sang this song with us..What a beautiful number. Woody was such a talented man. I love his music
Some people think this song refers to the Red River Valley in Texas and that the song must have been written by a Texan. But no, it refers to Manitoba's northern Red River Valley, and so was likely written by a Canadien. No one knows who wrote it, but it's origin is clearly from Canada. The song was known in at least 5 Canadien provinces before 1896, and has been traced as far back as the 1870's. Some speculate it may have been written during the 1870 Wolseley Expedition to Manitoba's northern Red River Valley.
Thank you for putting out the CORRECT story of this song. This is one of my favorite go-to humming songs, when I absentmindedly start humming when performing some task. So I recently found out what you so eloquently explain, not Texas, but Canada? Yes Canada to the North, not Texas to the South. Cowboys should not only be associated with the South West of the U. S. Wherever there were cattle ranches, there were cowboys. The original version of this very popular song, is not even about a man singing to his woman about love! This song is about a local Woman of the North, singing to her Soldier Lover, who was rotating to another post in the East and how lonely and sad She would be without Him, there in that Red River Valley of the North, where She was staying behind and probably never see Him again!
Fuck Canada
I think it was written about ND’s Red River Valley
Well, the Manitoba Red River Valley goes into North Dakota on the south end. So it's the same river. But it was thought to be of Canadian origin.
I can't wait to play this at work.
Remember the scene in "The Grapes of Wrath", where Ma Joad and Tom Joad danced to this? Lovely scene. Lovely movie. Lovely song. Lovely rendition. Thank you.
Wiki said it was the OPENING theme to "Grapes of Wrath" but it was (?also) the Closing theme.
thaddeus buttmunch It plays in various instrumental forms throughout the film.
If memory serves, the tune also features briefly in They Were Expendable (1945), also directed by Ford.
thats why im here!
Grapes of Wrath makes me cry more than any other movie. I'm from Oklahoma. 🌻😊🌻
My daddy sang this to me as a lullaby. Id ask over and over...
This is the best ever version 😀👋
One of my favorite songs. A gem.
Woody, una gran persona y artista. Un ejemplo.
"Come and sit by my side if you love me /
Do not hasten to bid me adieu"
His voice is very soothing
Woody was the pioneer in Folk music, that we call country music today.
This song, in its many beautiful versions, appears in so many Hollywood "oaters," so I had always thought it referred to the Red River in Texas-Oklahoma. I just learned that it refers to the Red River of Manitoba, and is Manitoban in origin. Nothing less than a testament to the Canadian + American appreciation of the hardscrabble life on the prairie -- and of exquisite beauty within the starkness of life. Thank you for posting Woody Guthrie's rendition.
some believe that in fact this is a european tune which migrated to Pennsylvania before migrating westward
Yes, the song has Canadien origins but Texans often like it .
Henry Fonda sings this song to his mama in the movie "The Grapes of Wrath".
@@rayb.457 I had forgotten that! I read the Grapes of Wrath in … I now cannot remember which grade, I think 10th, in 1973-74, … and we watched the film! Thank you for the reminder.
@@TheSteveBerlin you're welcome , Steve
There was a cover of this song in Fallout New Vegas. Its called New Vegas Valley in case anyone who played new vegas thought this sounded familiar
While in a college library, I found a song book and RED RIVER VALLEY was in it...dating back about 300 years. Like many folk-songs, thru the years. I first remeber hearing it about 1949-50 and thought it was about my area. In Oklahoma, thr Red River was only 11 miles away.
The Greratest American Folk singer of all time..hands down....
10 years later its still true.
I'm 16 and I'm listening to this
Come and sit by my side if you love me
Do not hasten to bid me adieu
Just remember the Red River Valley
And the cowboy who loved you so true
Well they tell me my dear that your going.
I will miss your bight eyes and your smile.
For with you,are taking the sunshine,
That has brightened my life for a while
Come and sit by my side if you love me
Do not hasten to bid me adieu
Just remember the Red River Valley
And the cowboy who loved you so true
Solo
As you go to your home by the ocean
May you never forget those sweet hours
That we spent in the Red River Valley
And the love we exchanged mid the flowers
Come and sit by my side if you love me
Do not hasten to bid me adieu
Just remember that Red River Valley
And the cowboy who loved you so true
I have waited along time my darling
For those words you never would say
Till at last my poor heart is breaking
For they tell me your going away.
Chorus.
Ciaran H great!!... I mean that's brilliant.. I wish every song on UA-cam has lyrics as this song
Glad you liked it . It's impossible to find the lyrics of songs you like to sing with the lyrics . Totally agree . Would make life easier . Thanks ciaran
Thanks very much my friend... ! ua-cam.com/video/pPiZhpTxPMk/v-deo.html *DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS* Country Guitar in the style of *Duane Eddy*
Google "lyrics" for just the words, Google "chords and lyrics" if you want to play an instrument.
Usually several versions of almost any song.
who could dislike this song, are you kididng me, you must not be human
Fabulous
🎼🎶⭐️
Goodbye Lefty Lou! God bless your family with comfort and peace. May music bring us all together one day~
This is real brilliant woh this was and is real music.thank you so very much.
Pretty song
I always loved this song because of the grapes of wrath movie. That was made in the 30's and it always made me wonder how old that song was. Just a simple sad song. but great!
+Art Brugman Seems to be from Manitoba, Canada, 2nd half of the 19th century.
Yeah. I knew this song from my Grandma. I love The Grapes of Wrath. Book and movie.
ART BRUGMAN...it's been awhile since you wondered about this song, but I read it in an old songbook published in the latter 18th century. It's an ole English ballad.
A Union Man thanks you for all you did for The Labor Movement, Woody.....
For some reason I remember the chorus as "Come and *walk* by my side if you love me." I haven't found a version, lately that puts it that way. I could be remembering it wrong; but there does seem to be a bit of general folksy variation in the lyrics from version to version.
I'll remember the Red River Valley and Woody Guthrie too.
Smithsonian Folkways is the best. Thank you.
This is so amazing, thank you!
More than a word of thanks.
'Vigilante Man', the true price of unemployment in Depression and Dustbowl hit America, sung as only Woody could. Never forget the cost of Capitalism.
Its red river valley definitely. I love the mandolin work . This is very similar to old time music which is considered old time music. I understand that Woody played music this way because that was the way hillbilly/country style was rendered then and today.
SUPERB
🎼⭐️⭐️⭐️
Funny, I know the tune in the german song: Nimm mich mit Kapitaen, auf die Reise. I think its from the 50th. They add other lyrics. So its been sung by Woody, wow. I love him.
Rest in peace dad.
God bless you too
Woody recorded this in a session with his buddy Cisco Houston. It was a great session. JJG
Another good song..
This is good
Every working man.
"he's looking right at you Q"
Unscrew the doors from their hinges! And the locks from their door jams!
Walt Whitman's Niece
@@serahkirk1946 hahaha i really like the movie ..
really love the movie
makes me think of the old days
Music is deeper than anything else..
@mattymraz The Red River of the North, as it's called, actually has its source in North Dakota/Minnesota, and flows north into Manitoba toward the Hudson Bay.
Always makes me think of The Grapes of Wrath :)
love it!
Don't you hate that?
'Thos is not America's by CSIS, the same cast as 'juris my dictio' in the loose movie of Based.
I met a girl from Houston 2 days ago. Hung out one day. She's the one. 😍
Wisconny Johnny is she still the one
Yes Johnny, tell us..
is she still the one jonny
tell us Johnny
*tell us*
we're hungry for an answer, johnny. well?
@reiligha I wouldn't say Dylan was imitating Woody, he was just heavily inspired by him, and it definitely shows in Dylan's music, they are great and unforgettable musicians.
@ajweberman This is all too true. I even heard an interview of his son Arlo about eight years ago when he was performing a show in Portland, OR. The DJ asked him how about that SOB Bush and how about gettin' out on the streets all angry, just like the good ol' '60s. Arlo hesitated, then said, "You know, sometimes you can take that too far." Well said, Arlo.
anyone know who was singing with woody on this song, he was also on some others with him, he was the perfect voice to go with him, i had heard before who it was but i have forgotten after all these years
sing it brother
sisters join along
ronnie ray jenkins
thank you woody. Love you.
makes me think of cowboys
Reminds me of the Lil Rascals' Alfalpha singing on Spanky's Gang films...👍👍
anyone know who sings harmony?
Maxine "Lefty Lou" Crissman
@slowpokecat Yes but it wasn´t Guthrie who composed it, just check on wikipedia. Greets
Watching it right now where he found the piece of paper.
@ajweberman America go down what tubes? I dont see no tubes! i guess it'd be some awfully big tubes for america to have to go down
Red river vally is from one of the magic tree house books called ghost town at sundown
There was a surprisingly slow melancholy song playing in brass band, I have heard the original song you want to know.
I want to know
Yes- and with the concessions workers won through the old unions being rolled back and wages decoupled from profits, we need unions now more than ever.
except one of key words is adieu (which is french, and some use versions even reference "metis").
This song is very similar to "There's a chill on the hill tonight" (Moon Mullican), "Silver haired daddy of mine" (Gene Autry) and "Dear old sunny South by the sea" (Jimmie Rodgers).
Sounds like Sara Carter on this record too?
yup
sick
Who was harmonizing with Woody?
this is about the Red River of Manitoba and North Dakota.....
my best kiss ever
he loves somebody else now and i want to end my world
@sigsson Actually, that is exactly the Red River Valley that the song is about, contrary to popular belief.
@slowpokecat Every man, woman and child in the U.S!
la rivière la plus connue au monde
The panting, BrianCanada. It fooled Short And Stocky, and Shirt And Sticky. But it couldn't close a door like a Deal
THIS GUITAR KILLS FASCISTS
Where is this guitar? we can use it now.
@@etheangel2220 Woody Guthry always had "This Machine Kills Fascists" on his guitar. From the early 1940s until he died.
...remember that song by JOHNNY + THE HURRICANS!
paper towns brought me here
@slowpokecat I'm a Union man and I agree 100%
there was a time it was right to be a red
He never dies. C:
Amerikában,lehettem volna ,akár cowboy is! Magyarországon, csak birkát és kecskét legeltettem!! egy része politikus lett, a többi meg "birka" maradt!!!!
did you just respond to yourself?
@slowpokecat Agreed - Thanks Woody! - - - hey "slowpokecat" check out Paul Robesons "Joe Hill" on youtube (if you haven't already) . . . talk about union men & women owing thanks - WOW!
Paper Towns :v
Ari Aranda that's exactly why I'm here.. it's been almost 2 years I guess since I watched first... gawd.. I love her and the movie...
They 9 now lol
Is it only me who hears a little dulcimer in this song?
I don't know why this song is very similar with Mr. Tambourine Man...
@navaho1946 This machine pwns n00bs.
those six dislikes are just him tryin to be modest
@TomThumbsBlues1965 Don't compare Bob Dylan to Woody Guthrie, and especially don't put Dylan first. Everybody knows Bob Dylan was just trying to imitate Woody Guthrie, and as great of a folks artist as he was, he's no Guthrie.
SALMONLEBON!
Bob Dylan based his work on Woody Guthrie, not so surprising nonetheless.
In australia a hell of a lot of them are just thugs. My father was beaten for not attending a union meeting. For example
red river valley mensuration she skipped a period
Gg gg
this was playing when i first cheated on my abuser my first kiss with my lover
after i couldnt stop laughing id fed him rum and peach soda