Darcy Farrow 2024

Written by Steve Gillette an Tom Campbell
More than 50 years ago, in Southern Calfornia, a young Steve Gillette was just learning how to write songs when his little sister Darcy had a brush with a feisty horse, inspiring a now-familiar ballad: "Darcy Farrow" has become part of the folk music lexicon, performed and recorded hundreds of times.
Gillette, says the melody for the song came from a guitar part he’d been working on which was inspired by a Pete Seeger composition.
Gillette was a young folk singer just getting his start when, in 1964, his 12-year-old sister Darcy was kicked by a horse.
She wasn’t hurt badly, but the incident became the idea for the song which Gillette wrote with his friend Tom Campbell.
The lyrics tell the story of a young women who dies in a fall from a horse, and a young man named Vandermeer who was so despondent he took his own life.
𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐑: 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫(𝐬) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 “𝐃𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 /𝐌𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐰 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜” 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐨𝐧-𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲, 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲.

[@JefLBoyd2312]

Beautiful song Dan very enjoyable to listen too thank you excellent performance my friend 😊 4:34

[@harrietbarbir8579]

very good- i really like your voice

[@robinrendell8308]

Love this song, Dan. Suits you, my good friend. You have wonderful ability to give your vocal and instrumentation room to breathe and not compete against each other. I like.

[@DanStedingMrCowMusic]

Rob - I so appreciate your support🙏🏼👍❤️