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Negro Spiritual. Down by the station early in the morning / Met a little girl about as cute as she could be / I turned on my charms and told her that I loved her
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The song suggests baptism in water, using the metaphor of crossing the It was used as background music in two episodes of In the UK, "Down by the Riverside" was parodied for use by a radio commercial on some local radio stations (namely Down by the Riverside as MIDI File.
Utica Jubilee Singers Spirituals : As Sung at the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute of Mississippi / Taken down by J. Rosamond Johnson.
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The Four Lads were a Canadian singing group.
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The founding members… Down by the Riverside Lyrics: I met my little bright-eyed doll (way down) down by the riverside / (Way down) Down by the riverside, (way down) down by the riverside / …
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The song was first recorded by the Fisk University jubilee quartet in 1920 (published by Columbia in 1922), and there are at least 14 black gospel recordings before World War II.
The founding members were Corrado "Connie" Codarini, bass; John Bernard "Bernie" Toorish (born 2 March 1931), lead; James F. "Jimmy" Arnold, (4 January 1932-15 June 2004) first tenor; and Frank Busseri, baritone and group manager.
The Four Lads is a popular Canadian male singing quartet.
Chosen instrument is Alto Flute.Other early prints of Ain't gonna study war no more / Down by the riverside is: Dann, Hollis.
Other lines that can appear in stanzas, in place of "Gonna lay down my burden", include:
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"The Four Lads made numerous television appearances including the award-winning PBS special, Moments to Remember.In 1953 they made their own first gold record, "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", which launched them to stardom and kept them busy throughout the 1950s and 1960s in the U.S. and Canada.Their most famous hit was "Moments to Remember" in 1955, and their next best known was "Standin' on the Corner", from the Broadway musical production of The Most Happy Fella, in 1956.Lyrics and songs are property and copyright of their respective authors, artists and labels.
Because of its pacifistic imagery, "Down by the Riverside" has also been used as an The song has many lyrical variations, though usually each stanza follows a standard form, with one sentence that differs from one stanza to the next.
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