Cash, Johnny - Sweet Betsy From Pike Lyrics

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I have the "Heavenly Highway Hymms"...

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We sang this in elementary music class many years ago

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they made us sing this song in us history and i hated it

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2018 my teacher teached us this ysterday

Rodin M. Paspasan taught, not teached. Your English teacher is falling down on the job.

Johnny Cash had a voice like rolling thunder......

This is trash this is for school
(FML)

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I thought not, you'd not hear it from the Jedis,

He used the dark forces, for creating life,
Perhaps the Sith powers could help save your wife.

He had so much power when using the force,
But he couldn't stay strong forever, of course.

His apprentice, with whom all his secrets were kept,
Betrayed Wise Darth Plaguies, killed him while he slept.

You can't learn this skill from a Jedi because,
The Jedi believe it's against nature's laws,

Darth Plagues's tale is of great irony,
He saved everyone but himself, tragically.♫♪

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a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

Very nice. May I copy this & post it elsewhere with credit?

#my music teacher song this

try to find the words buried in the letters

I like the Strother Martin version best, re: Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid down in Bolivia.

I learned this song in public grade school in the 1960's. What a memory...

Paula Pacente Me too, 1950’s

Awesome guy, awesome song! I play this on the guitar, so I sing my little sister to sleep with this song.

My grandfather sang this to all the kids a long time ago to rock them to sleep in his arms. I thought it was a song he just made up but then stumbled upon this. My grandfather's lyrics were a little off though, lol:

Oh do you remember sweet Betsy from Pike
Who crossed a wild prairie with her husband Ike
With two yoke of oxen and one spotted dog
And an old Shanghai rooster she brought from back home.

I know that's wrong, but that's the why I'm gonna keep singing it! Oh the memories...

Every so often my grandpa would sing this song as well; the way I always remembered it was the lyrics you have here, not in the song. So you're not the only one!

As a folk song, the lyrics can't be wrong, just different. ;) I like your grand father's version.

H. E. A. R. T. S if you cannae spell it then heres wit it says

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Try these lyrics. The tune accompanies them wonderfully.

O lover eternal to whom we belong
Your name, it is holy. Your kingdom is come.
Your will both on earth and in heaven is done.
You meet with our needs satisfying each one.

The sin that we live in we pray you forgive
As we forgive others, so they too may live.
So send no temptation. Cause evil to end
O kingdom, and power and glory, Amen!

I'm a Christian too, but I love this song just the way it is.

I, too, love the song the way it is, and wouldn't change it for the world.
I've been doing different poetic settings of the Lord's Prayer for years, and setting them to accessible tunes. This tune is one of the best! Cash's rendition is a jewel.

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I like that. May I copy this & re-post it with credit?

Any one know who was playing the banjo on this one?

The late great Bob Wooten.

The fall 'll probably kill ya.

omg my grandmother loves this song

omg my grandmother loves this song

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Fantastic..!

Wonderful...

Listen to the Sons of Pioneer's version......

One of my favorite ballads...done to perfection by Johnny Cash.

He cut out several lines from the original song.  (sad face)

My Dad taught me this one on the harmonica.

What key is the harmonica?

Mmm Hohner C, I believe. The Basic.

@Crashman2 yes sir I just turned 20 sadly live in the city but the country is in my heart and family background so I do my history but anyways for my birthday I got a Hohner Marine Band no. 1896 key of C and I just loved it dont know how to play a tune but suprisingly I learned this in one day and I just love this Johnny Cash version of the old pioneer song

ALL Cowboys/Pioneers carried pocket Hohners for their EZ-to play/ sweet music. He taught me ALL the lyrics, too. Have to explain to NewHumans the EXTREME Pioneer importance of a Tall Shanghai Rooster (alarm clock) & a BIG yaller Dawg. Hens can always be found later to turn kitchen-slops into eggs, Dawg is your night Alarm-system. City-Betsy give out when low on water, endless dry prairie/ eye-burning Sun ahead. Now for those Night-COLD, pack-yer food, Pick-yer-Pass Mountains.

Git me a squeezebox-man, a busthead-whiskey jug, a washboard & borrowed-fm-Betsy thimbles, a broomstick/ string washtub Bass, & we gotta BAND- that MIGHT attract a REAL Fiddler! I still have a bass-2- teeny soprano collection of Jaw-harps. Often invited to sit in... w/ REAL Fiddlers & Blues-Harpists who have MANY-Key well broken-in Hohner Harps. 

I had this song on some old Disney cassette tape. It was like my favorite song ever when I was younger.

Yeah, that's the one.

Thanks! Did it come with a book? I remember having a Disney tape similar to the one you had... mine had a book. For a while, I could find those tapes at the Half Price Books stores until tapes were replaced by CDs entirely.

I don't remember a book, but it may have gone the way of the other tapes. There were a couple of tapes in the set, but I was notoriously hard on tapes at the time

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I had the same set in album form and I played this song over and over!

So am I XD social studies

GREAT !

R.I.P. Johnny Cash...your best work is right here on U-tube!

Love to hear Johnny Cash doing this old classic. Odd that he would sing it in the key of G, but play the harmonica in the key of F. But it sounds okay.

I f-ucking LOVE Johnny Cash.

I just cannot put it any simpler than that.

I like the verse where she gets pissed and moons the whole wagon train.
Out on the prairie one bright, starry night,
They broke out the whiskey, and Betsy got tight.
She sang and she shouted and danced o'er the plain,
And she showed her bare arse to the whole wagon train.

u'll get sand in ur eyes! lol

luv the harp (harmonica at the begining!)

Im in social studies looking for this song ahah 2-13-12

THIS SONG POPPED UP IN MY HEAD TODAY.
HADN´T HEARD GOOD OLE JOHNNY´S VERSION
THO´ . THANKS FER POSTIN´ .

well done`J.R CASH, well done.

This song has been playing in my head the last few days...when I learned it in elem school it was 'Oh don't you remember sweet Betsy from Pike, who crossed the wide prairie with her husband Ike...with two yoke of cattle and one spotted hog, a tall Shanghai rooster and an old yaller dog....singin too rolly oo rolly oo rolly ay...' don't know why it's been playing in my head...hadn't thought of it since about the 3rd grade...!!

Was it also on a cassette, Disney Favorites maybe? I think Larry Groce sang it :)