Arlo Guthrie - Red River Valley Lyrics

This is so amazing, thank you!

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Red River Valley is an old "Ballad" style song from the traditional West. It was born in 1870 and, centuries later, it has not lost its typical glaze of the old West. Congratulations and many warm greetings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5pAGvph8aw *RED RIVER VALLEY* Western Guitar in the style of *Old West*

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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScAgYdrN67w *YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE* Guitar solo in the style of *Johnny Cash*

Woody and friends were populists with big hearts, not red fascist bastards like todays 'leftist' shills paid by globalist plutocrats to subsititute slogans for activism.
Woody would spit on the likes of dirty commie rats like stalin mao castro clinton and aoc. You have to wonder if hitler was paid by the gangbankers to make stalin the terrible look good by comparison.
Orwell's big brother was not based on hitler the loser but stalin who demanded confessions.
of his victims before their execution. Nazis are dicks. Commies are cunts.
Only restoring morality can save us from elite technocratic extinction.

My daddy sang this to me as a lullaby. Id ask over and over...

I'm 16 and I'm listening to this

Another good song..

Sounds like Sara Carter on this record too?

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

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

my best kiss ever

he loves somebody else now and i want to end my world

paper towns brought me here

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

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.

One of my favorite songs. A gem.

love it!

anyone know who sings harmony?

Maxine "Lefty Lou" Crissman

This is real brilliant woh this was and is real music.thank you so very much.

Amerikában,lehettem volna ,akár cowboy is! Magyarországon, csak birkát és kecskét legeltettem!! egy része politikus lett, a többi meg "birka" maradt!!!!

Boooooo

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 YouTube 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... ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPiZhpTxPMk *DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS* Country Guitar in the style of *Duane Eddy*

"he's looking right at you Q"

Unscrew the doors from their hinges! And the locks from their door jams!

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...

Smithsonian Folkways is the best. Thank you.

I met a girl from Houston 2 days ago. Hung out one day. She's the one. 😍

is she still the one jonny

tell us Johnny

*tell us*

we're hungry for an answer, johnny. well?

*_Johnny you fucker_*

Johnny, is she still the one?

"Come and sit by my side if you love me / 
 Do not hasten to bid me adieu"

Goodbye Lefty Lou! God bless your family with comfort and peace. May music bring us all together one day~

Rest in peace dad.

God bless you too

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.

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.

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. 🌻😊🌻

That's what made me love this song.

la rivière la plus connue au monde

My brother, sister, and some cousins and I sang this at a program for my grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. They were homesteaders in Saskatchewan - both of the families moved to Saskatchewan in 1906 and established wheat farms. It was a tough life. 

What a wonderfully sweet story. ♥

...remember that song by JOHNNY + THE HURRICANS!

#ugottalisten2b4udie  

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.

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).

Bob Dylan based his work on Woody Guthrie, not so surprising nonetheless.

I don't know why this song is very similar with Mr. Tambourine Man...

Red river vally is from one of the magic tree house books called ghost town at sundown

Always makes me think of The Grapes of Wrath :)

He never dies. C:

I like Marty Robins version better.

SALMONLEBON!

Correction! Kiitos, that's thank you in Finnish.

no i think he's dead

did you just respond to yourself?

makes me think of cowboys

makes me think of the old days

the neo-cons I put them in the bag fascists

They 9 now lol

and neo-cons

That's the spirit, however they are probably just Republicans.

There may be a few union thugs, but every manager and owner is a thug. Unions are the only way we have to keeping them from kicking us around whenever they want.

In australia a hell of a lot of them are just thugs. My father was beaten for not attending a union meeting. For example

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.

Music is deeper than anything else..

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.

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.

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.

Who was harmonizing with Woody?

there was a time it was right to be a red

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

just remember that red river valley and remember I married a jew

A Union Man thanks you for all you did for The Labor Movement, Woody.....

I'll remember the Red River Valley and Woody Guthrie too.

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.

Every working man.

The Greratest American Folk singer of all time..hands down....

@slowpokecat Every man, woman and child in the U.S!

those six dislikes are just him tryin to be modest

Is it only me who hears a little dulcimer in this song?

@slowpokecat I'm a Union man and I agree 100%

@navaho1946 This machine pwns n00bs.

@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

@reiligha i said nothing of comparing them or made any comment on imitation. theres a difference between imitation and profound influence which guthrie obviously was on him. i would never compare them because the are sooo different. i love them both and you i can see have good taste too if youre listening to woody, i just wanted to clear that up.

@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.

@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.

its been decided, im naming my first born son dylan woodrow (bob dylan, woody guthrie)

@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.

Guthrie was the best of the Left. Now it is a bunch of hate America scumbags who want to see America go down the tubes.

Woody recorded this in a session with his buddy Cisco Houston. It was a great session. JJG

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

who could dislike this song, are you kididng me, you must not be human

@sigsson Actually, that is exactly the Red River Valley that the song is about, contrary to popular belief.

Woody was the pioneer in Folk music, that we call country music 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.

@slowpokecat Yes but it wasn´t Guthrie who composed it, just check on wikipedia. Greets

@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.

Guthrie was the best of the Left. Now it is a bunch of hate America scumbags who want to see America go down the tubes.

@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!

except one of key words is adieu (which is french, and some use versions even reference "metis").

this is about the Red River of Manitoba and North Dakota.....

sing it brother
sisters join along
ronnie ray jenkins

thank you woody. Love you.