Banks of the Ohio

Banks of the Ohio

"'Banks of the Ohio'" is a nineteenth century murder ballad, in which Willie invites his young lover for a walk during which she rejects his marriage proposal. Once they are alone on the river bank, he murders her. The song has been recorded countless times, including by Johnny Cash, The Carter Family, the Blue Sky Boys (whose version, performed in 1936, appears in the soundtrack of the 1973 film "Paper Moon"), the Monroe Brothers, Joan Baez, Olivia Newton-John (with Mike Sammes, in 1971, her second commercial single in the United States), and Doc Watson, with slightly different lyrics when sung by a female. The song is similar in subject to "Pretty Polly", and likely tells the same story. (Both songs date from approximately the same time, tell roughly the same story, and feature a villain named "Willie".)

Also, the song and its title serve as the theme song for, and title of, a long-running radio series broadcast of bluegrass music on WAMU-PBS and Bluegrass Country www.bluegrasscountry.org, hosted by Fred Bartenstein and produced forthe International Bluegrass Music Museum, near the
Ohio River in Owensboro, Kentucky.

External links

Banks of the Ohio radio and Internet series http://www.bluegrass-museum.org/programs/banks.htm


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