- Style
- Bluegrass
- Tradition
- Appalachian
- Form
- Song
- Key
- C Mixolydian
- Level
- 2
- Played on
- Voice and Banjo
In the public domain. Source
Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
This is a mountain song about love, loss and moonshine, related in theme to "Little Maggie." Cecil Sharp heard its verses within a song called "The Gambling Man" from Mrs. Clercy Deeton at Burnsville, North Carolina, in 1918, and Harvey Fuson printed the words as "Little Cora" in 1931.
Buell Kazee recorded it as "Darling Cora" in April 1927, and B. F. Shelton's version at the Bristol Sessions that July was widely copied. The Monroe Brothers recorded it in 1936, and John Lomax put their record on the 1941 set Smoky Mountain Ballads, which carried it to Pete Seeger, Burl Ives and the folk revival.