Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves - Willie Moore

Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves perform the traditional tune, "Willie Moore." Their performance takes place live in front of a packed audience in the living room of a California farmhouse. Tatiana first heard this song on Harry Smith’s "Anthology of American Folk Music” and immediately fell in love with the playing of Dick Burnett (1883-1977) and Leonard Rutherford (1899-1951). Burnett and Rutherford played music together for 35 years, and even lived together for a while after the untimely death of Rutherford’s parents, who passed away when he was a teenager. Burnett picked up these words from a printed ballad and claims to have learned the melody from hearing someone humming it during his travels (taken from the liner notes from their 2019 Free Dirt record). Concert film directed & produced by David Bunn for Deep End Sessions. Audio by Stephen Schauer. Cameras, Alex Blair, Cody Edison & Stephen Schauer (DP). Edited by Alex Blair & David Bunn. © Deep End Sessions 2020.

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So beautifully sung and played.

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I can't go that deep...ever. Thanks.

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Sounds great!

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Willie Moore was a king, his age 21 and he courted a damsel fair
Oh, her eyes were as bright as a diamond after night and a wavy black was her hair
He courted her by night and day until marriage they did agree
Oh, but when he came to get her parents' consent they said it could never be
She threw herself in Willie Moore's hands as often they've done before
Oh, but little did he think as he left her that night, sweet Annie he would see no more
It was about the 10th of may, a time i remember it well
That very same night little Annie disappeared in a way no tongue can tell
Sweet Annie was loved both far and near, she had friends almost all around
And near a little brook not far from her home the body of sweet Annie were found
Her parents now are left alone, one mourns while the other'n weeps
And near a grassy mound outside the cottage door the body of sweet Annie sleeps
Willie Moore scarcely spoke to his friends they say from the moment they both did part
And his last day was spent near his true lover's grave where he died of a broken heart