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(Music: "East Virginia")
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(Banjo)
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(Singing) I'm from
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old East Virginia.
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North Carolina
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I did go.
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I met
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a fair, young maiden.
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Her name I did not know.
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(Banjo)
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Don't that road
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look rough and rocky?
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Don't that sea look wide and deep?
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Don't my darlin'
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look
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the sweetest ...
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When she's in my arms asleep?
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(Banjo)
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Her hair
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was a dark-brown curly.
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Her cheeks were chestnut red.
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On her breast
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she wore a white lilly.
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Through the night, the tears she shed.
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(Banjo)
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Captain,
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Captain, I am dyin'.
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Won't you take these words for me?
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Take them back
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to old East Virginia.
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Tell my darlin' she is free.
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(Banjo)
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(Music ends)
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(Applause and cheers)
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That was a song called "East Virginia"
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I learned from a man named Clifton Hicks
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who lives down in Georgia.
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The next song ...
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I have for you
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is called "John Brown's Dream."
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It's an old dance tune.
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And you may notice that the banjo
that I'm holding looks a little different
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than banjos you might be used to seeing
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or the one I just played, for example.
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And this banjo
is sort of an earlier model.
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Banjos kind of evolved like a human has.
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And I like to say that the sound
that comes out of this banjo
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is a sound that was
just a little closer to the source,
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which is Africa,
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and some people forget that,
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so, yeah ...
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(Banjo tuning)
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(Music: "John Brown's Dream")
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(Banjo)
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(Banjo continues)
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(Singing) John Brown's dream,
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John Brown's dream the devil was dead.
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I'm gonna get that, get that, get that,
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I'm gonna get that pretty little girl.
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(Banjo)
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John Brown's dream,
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John Brown's dream the devil was dead.
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(Banjo)
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Come on, Liza, Liza, Liza.
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Come on, Liza we'll be pickin' it again.
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I'm gonna get that, get that, get that,
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I'm gonna get that pretty little girl.
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(Banjo)
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(Music ends)
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(Applause and cheers)
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Thank you very much.
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