Thanks so much!

Thanks very much! I would be intimidated at the thought of playing it for Shakespeare - but at least a lot of the lines are in iambic pentameter!

Many thanks!!

Thanks to you, and of course many thanks to the drummer next door!

Thanks so much Chuck! It turns out that some of the details I recount here are not that accurate - I suppose I should have fact checked the documentary. Oh well.

Thanks so much, Clark! Indeed the whole trip was predicated on the appendix of Pete’s book that deals, ever so briefly, with the African roots of the banjo!

Thank you Michael!

Many thanks! My version of this does take some liberties with the order of the stanzas and details of the lyrics, in keeping with my practice of not doing “cover versions” of songs, but rather, doing “my interpretations” of them.

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Thanks so much!

Many thanks, Marc!

Thank you so much, Anne! It’s a strange feeling, making people cry, but without malice.

@@marcnerenberg1 I think crying is good for me.

Thank you so much! Now go forth and learn - but remember, you “play” the banjo, so make your learning a kind of playing, and the joy will carry you through the tough parts!

Aw gee, thanks so much, Deiter!

Thanks, my friend, much appreciated!

Thanks very much, my friend! I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out. I look much more relaxed here than I was actually feeling internally. Fake it till ya make it! Ha!

Thanks for the suggestion. Though I doubt I’ll do that particular song, I do appreciate you suggesting it.

Thanks so much! I’ll look, I’ll look! As they say: Seek and ye shall find!

Mucho thankos, Marco!

Thanks very much! I’ve never performed this for an audience without kids in it before, nor have I performed it at all in about 35 years. Thus was a completely unprepared spur of the moment performance. I’m amazed I got through so smoothly. I guess the stuff you learned as a kid has a way of sticking with you all your life!

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i thought you might enjoy this ode to Pete Seeger, written for him a few years ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpXWZ2p4mbl3ec0

Thank you very much! It’s quite a song that’s way more complex and nuanced in its emotional content than I had realized before I started singing it.

@@marcnerenberg1 thanks...i tend to over think 😆...but my heart is in the right place 🕊♥🌈

Thanks Daniel!

Thanks very much. He was indeed a great artist, and even more so, a great human being. It was a genuine privilege to have met him personally quite a few times in my life, starting as a little kid, when he came to our house since my father had been instrumental in bringing him to Montreal to perform when he was blacklisted in the U.S.

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Many thanks, Chuck, many thanks!

Ah! Thank you very much! I find it hard to know if it’s going to be interesting to anybody but me when one these weird songs comes floating out of my subconscious!

@@marcnerenberg1 Your audience must be at least somewhat familiar with Italian artists. I once knew a tall, slender girl with Modigliani eyes- a lovely Sicilian.

Thanks very much!

Thanks very much, Chuck!

Thank you very much! I learned the two instruments at the same time, and right from the start I played them together, so it seems very natural to me.

Thank you! I’m pretty sure it’s cross harp. This video is 7 years old; I usually put that kind of information in the video description now, but I see here that I wasn’t doing that that yet then.

Thanks mucho my friend! I really enjoy playing spontaneous harmonica backing. It requires a kind of exhilarating focus and attention. Really keeps me in my toes

Thanks very much. Chuck!

Thanks very much, Chuck! Right after I posted this, I went and hosted the weekly Yellow Door Hootenanny, where I sang this again. This rendition was better though, so I’m glad I recorded it?

Thanks very much Marc! And I say back to you: Play on, Marc, play on!

Thanks so much, Irwin! The sad thing is that this song seems to be perpetually timely and relevant.

Many thanks, indeed!

Thanks very much Chuck! (ps I finally have gotten around to finishing those introductory notes. Was too busy with the eclipse before!)

@@marcnerenberg1 Watched the eclipse out here in Calgary but the most the moon covered the sun was about 20% no where near as good as what you folks in Montreal saw.

Thanks so much!

Many thanks!

Thanks so much, and it’s lovely to hear from you! I hope all is well for you these days - it’s been a while!

Thanks Marc! I’m pretty sure that was the first songbook I ever bought. I think I was in high school, still hoping to get a banjo and learn how to play one of those days. If memory serves me well, I also bought Seeger’s “How to play the 5-string banjo” book at the same time. By the time I finally got a banjo I had poured through those two books multiple times!

Thanks very much!

thanks very much!

Thank you very much!