Old Joe Clark lyrics - The Rosinators [Paul Castle, Will Sneyd & Fliss Premru]

[@Tesana]

I Want to hear Greybeard Halt even more now!!!

[@cidspimms]

My father grew up near "Fare Thee Well" the home of Joe Clark. This version takes me back to my childhood; thank-you for posting.

[@blackdolphin27]

im singing this song for an audition on monday argggggggggg with me luck with a thumbs up : )

[@chrisg5466]

old joe smoke/grey beard halt ...lol.......i love the ranger's apprentice series

[@ademirstabury4175]

my father traveled in his kenworth k123 through texas, new mexico, salt lake city, with these songs i love...

[@skee606]

This reminds me of "Graybeard Halt" from Ranger's Apprentice.

[@gardenwarfareboss2793]

sky rooney thats bacuase this was john flanagans inspiaration for greybeard halt

[@lukasz9395]

Old Joe Smoke from Ranger's Apprentice

[@kfaulk]

I think you mean..... _Graybeard Halt_

[@randyrougeau6787]

I love the way the melody is played in this song, this Joe C. Aid my favorite one

[@chuckweicha1]

Wrote this last time I was in West Virginia years ago: 'Ol Joe Clark was a preacher's son Daddy lost his life in the mines His granny tried to keep him straight But never saw the signs Fare thee well, 'Ol Joe Clark Fare thee well I'm bound Fare thee well 'Ol Joe Clark And goodbye Betsy Brown At 16 Joe found love Her name was Betsy Brown Took her innocence on a rainy day While her Momma was in town Fare thee well 'Ol Joe Clark Fare thee well I'm bound Fare the well 'Ol Joe Clark And goodbye Betsy Brown Quincy Morgan was the local spot Sold them trees he grew in the shed One day said got something new for you Sold them some little pills instead Fare thee well 'Ol Joe Clark Fare thee well I'm bound Fare thee well 'Ol Joe Clark And goodbye Betsy Brown Now they had to steal when they got sick Got caught judge let 'em go Granny prayed on it and let 'em stay When Betsy started to show Fare thee well 'Ol Joe Clark Fare thee well I'm bound Fare thee well 'Ol Joe Clark And goodbye Betsy Brown They pulled a job up in Strange Creek Quincy's driving saved the day That night Betsy laid down in the bath And washed her sins away Fare thee well 'Ol Joe Clark Fare thee well I'm bound Fare the well 'Ol Joe Clark And goodbye Betsy Brown Joe got put in castle Hazleton Quincy a skinner joint in Maine Now Betsy rests up in Tinney Her momma ain't never been the same Fare thee well 'Ol Joe Clark Fare thee well I'm bound Fare thee well 'Ol Joe Clark And Goodbye Betsy Brown

[@Abreodan]

I'm an English Clark and never knew this song existed till I met some distantly related American family. I like to think this song is about a relative. :D

[@TheLastHylianTitan]

this song holds a deep meaning for me, because it was my favorite song to play on the violin since i was really young. i'm in college now, and it's nice to finally know the lyrics.

[@acharyajamesoermannspeaker6563]

Excellent

[@MyRandomLOLVideos]

The version I leaarned when plunk plunga plunk for a while then went Old Joe clark was a good ol' man lived in tenness hollared up a country tune, banjo on his knee. CHORUS: Fare you well old joe clark good bye betsy brown, fareyou well old joe clark. Fare well to the town. Fare well to the town.

[@amynatzke1050]

Excellent! Thank you for your post.

[@ItsMeMissV369]

I was watching an old rerun of bonanza last week and young Wayne Newton was on it singing this song and I thought wow, what a catchy tune! And here I am, this is a great version!

[@scott-gc5rk]

American Young Voices!!!!

[@oldbeardface]

Sounds brill, well done. Im only starting to get into this scene myself as Im learning the fiddle and I love it all, lyrics, the beat, the playing, the whole lot. R, Ireland

[@EricJ.Evans51]

How's learning the fiddle going , I bet your a pro now

[@oneman49instruments]

excellent! from Barcelona

[@DadsLloyd]

The Old Joe Clark I remember from the early 1960s had these lyrics: "Old Joe Clark mopped the bar, liquor was his pay. Never saved a golden eagle, drank it all away." ...and... "Old Joe Clark walked downtown backwards, people asked him why. I came back for one more drink while waving you goodbye."

[@aracelinolasco7542]

DadsLloyd it’s kinda inappropriate for kids

[@wafflezzzz101]

My school choir is singing this song.....i think. I think we are singing a different version, because we say 20 stories, and we say "round and around, old joe clark, round and around i say. he'd follow me 10,000 miles to hear my fiddle play." I know, its weird. IDK.

[@tex3121]

My school choir is singing bout chicken pie XD

[@Totallystylish28]

wait yeah, i sang that one a coupe years ago. trying to find that version of it 😅

[@mckennaabrown]

yeah my choir's singing the one like "old joe clark, he had a house, 16 stories high. every story in the house smelled like apple pie. round and round old joe clark, round and round i say. round and round old joe clark dance the night away"

[@maxsoja5059]

Same

[@user-yi1dh6dh8p]

ShadowArt same

[@vaginaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1]

Thanks Gunsmoke for introducing me to this song

[@dickb.2756]

This tune was used in a tribute to the American fighting man, broadcast in Europe on VE day in 1945. The test was written by Norman Corwin, a great radio writer of the day. The chorus was, as i recall, "Round and round Hitler's grave, Round and round we go. Going to put that feller down so he don't get up no more?

[@PaulCastlemusic]

Thanks for posting, Dick. This page says the words to this adaptation were written by Woody Guthrie, Millard Lampell and Pete Seeger of The Almanac Singers in 1941 www.peteseeger.net/roundhit.htm - listen @ kzbin.info/www/bejne/eamvaYCgj9d8hc0

[@Sam-cm1nj]

Do Greybeard Halt from rangers apprentice

[@lhz8821]

o.o this isnt the old joe clark i was lookinf for but it was good!!!

[@KayWal_JDM]

Great video thanks for sharing . My favorite version is Wayne Newtons on this song on Bonanza .. i love this song very much its just fun

[@Lau19K]

I know XD I wish John Flanagan had written more about that part. I think it's my favorite part in the entire series. No, I haven't. I don't really have the heart to. I can't stand reading a 'Ranger's Apprentice' book without, like, Gilan and the Rangers in it, you know? Everyone says they're really good, though. Have you read them?

[@cidspimms]

I love the Rosinators! Best version.

[@bobmouseable]

Love this song! Thanks for the post!

[@l.salisbury1253]

Best version I've heard of "Ol' Joe Clark" is in the infamous horror film "2000 Maniacs" (1964).

[@villebillie1562]

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[@slygi4]

That was so great! It really, really made my day!

[@Charlie-Cat.]

Nice song!

[@pageplant7t7]

@supersingingfrog The one I learned went like "Old Joe had a big red barn, 16 stories high. Every story in that barn was filled with chicken pie"

[@DaedricPrincePhilo]

I just looked this up after learning it on the Mountain Dulcimer when I was 9 (I'm 32 now), recently came across my old dulcimer and music book and this song was in it, but the lyrics were 'i went down to old joes house, never been there before. he slept on a feather bed, i slept on the floor. fare the well old joe clark, fare the well im gone. fare the well old joe clark, i'd better be getting on." - after some googling, it seems there are 1,000 different verses for this song. hardly any use the same lyrics (from what i was looking through). i found that pretty interesting, that a simple song i learned when i was 9 that only had the one verse, actually has many many verses.

[@ballandpaddle]

I remember it as, "Old Joe Clark, the preacher's son, Came to my house one day. Ate up all my chicken fry, And threw the bones away. Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark, Fare thee well I say, Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark, Don't come back someday."

[@ArcaniIgnis]

Rangers Apprentice brought me here.

[@imogenmcknight5464]

Same here

[@cloudqbaby-yx9eh]

school brought me here

[@carolinefleming3849]

YOU TOO?

[@puelemueix]

Thank You

[@simonsaunders8147]

That intro riff reminds me of Dury's "Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll".

[@Mrlzman]

Dury lifted it from Ramblin' by Ornette Coleman, who, when Dury apologized, admitted to lifting it from Old Joe Clark.

[@PHJimY]

I used to sing this for kids. Their favourite verses were the one that The Rosinators sing that goes: I went down to Old Joe's house, he invited me to supper I stubbed my toe on the table leg and stuck my nose in the butter. and Don't go down to Old Joe's house, tell you the reason why, He blows his nose on old corn bread and calls it pumpkin pie.

[@gracegreca4368]

far the well old joe clarck

[@bunnybop2]

@cupcakes334 me too! We r doing this song for choir competions

[@williamanesbitt]

Fun to jam along with! Thanks for posting! :-)

[@aracelinolasco7542]

williamanesbitt poo but is I’m in 4 5

[@aracelinolasco7542]

I’m only 5

[@robynmeeks7572]

I sing that song at school but a different kind

[@danielkuzman4307]

I love it

[@PaulCastlemusic]

Thanks for posting, Daniel - glad you like it - very best - Rosinator Paul

[@harlem519]

@supersingingfrog mine was old joe clark he had a house it was 16 stories high

[@cidspimms]

Sadly "Fare Thee Well" is no more; those of us who loved driving past the house mentioned in the song feel a great loss to the history of Clay Co. Kentucky. Several years ago it was demolished; and a "replica" erected in its place. The historical plaque remains; but Fare Thee Well as we knew it, exists now only in the song; and in our memories. A picture can be found @ my channel.

[@DeathStarthedragon]

The version I know is: Old Joe Clark he had a house, forty storeys high, and every story in that house was lined with chicken pie!

[@lizab.stough9396]

Was this the source for Dury/Jankel's "Sex, drugs & Rock'n'Roll"?

[@sandraj5544]

far the well old joe clark far the well im bound.

[@mac_6705]

We r singing this in my choir

[@kayolmstead844]

me too!

[@kyliehoward7834]

Kitty Macaroni same!

[@kfaulk]

Sorry, did you mean... _Graybeard Halt_

[@godngunclinger]

Ol Joe Clark's a mean old man As mean as he can be He knocked me down with his right hand And walked all over me Fare thee well Ol' Joe Clark Fare thee well I'm Bound Fare thee well Ol' Joe Clark Good bye to this town

[@samigrl1234]

singing this in chorus.

[@1DennisK]

"I went down to Old Joe Clark's, found him 'sleep in bed, stuck my fingers down his throat, pulled out a chicken head."

[@josephfrost4349]

I found out that I'm related to the real Joe Clark! 1st cousin, 3x removed!

[@brandonshelly3086]

old joe Clark he had a house 16 stories high every story in the house smelled like apple pie round and round old joe clark round and round i say

[@XxXWinglessxAngelXxX]

My choir sang this, and we all had different parts, but none of them sounded like this. Mine went: 'Round and round, Old Joe Clark Round and Round Round and round Old Joe Clark' Ain't got long to stay Old Joe Clark he had a house, 16 stories High Every room in that house was full of chi-chicken pie! Round and round, Old Joe Clark, Round and round Round and round, Old jow Clark Ain't got long to stay Old Joe Clark had a father bed He got the bed And I got the floor! And so on. >>

[@Lau19K]

Ah! my bad!!! I thougth you meant the brother band series!!! Yes yes yes I read the Lost Stories and I loved them

[@Lau19K]

Thumbs up if you came here for "Greybeard Halt" from Ranger's Apprentice

[@geoffreyallen888]

Ain't this grand?

[@davidshockey914]

The movie 2000 Maniacs brought me here

[@thevulcan01sc]

fiddle tune

[@baileyluellen]

our vocal class has 2 sing this but just parts of it cause its mixed wit soldiers joy and sail away laides

[@bunnybop2]

@cupcakes443 sorry I messed up ur name! That's how we learned it. We r doing this for choir competions.

[@69imatroll]

@supersingingfrog i knew old joe clark he had a house 16 stories high and every storie in that house smelled like apple pie . :)

[@jameshubacher2585]

I had a music teacher who covered this once. The key was the same but not the lyrics

[@Actors317]

The Jukebox Band from Shining Time Station brought me here.

[@nivienfaili8423]

Boibot told me to listen to this O.O

[@nancyks3]

plunk plunka plung

[@Stichy_]

@supersingingfrog same!

[@ariagrace4980]

The house is eighteen story's high

[@TheLoversWish]

16 stories

[@x1Amazingplayer]

My verison I know: went up in a montion top to give my horn a blow thought I heard a pretty girl say yonder comes my beau fare the well blackbird in a willow tree sings a nournful song I won't here it sing no more tomorrow ill be gone fare the well 3x. 3 part harmony: goodbye I'm gone

[@PHJimY]

John Hartford put an advertisement in his version: I need and old Orpheum 5-string with a 12 inch open back pot So next time you're up in the attic take a look and see what you've got. Or a twelve inch Farland open-back, 28 and 3 eighth inch scale Sure wish you'd write and let me know if you've got one for sale Another of his verses said: Everyone says,"Right on, Far out!" then stands around and laughs, Guess I'd better say it too or Joe might kick my ass.

[@joeldwinal7016]

AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhAaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaahhhhhhh

[@zuzuland7557]

I love version Ranger Apperintse Kocham wersje z Zwiadowców Stary Joe Smoke i Halt Siwobrody

[@TheGenreman]

Sex & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll

[@randomnesscosplays1072]

Boibot told me to listen to this

[@OkamiFan1212]

We're learning a song with 3 parts and the melodie is "old Joe Clark, he had a house 16 stories high, every story in the house was full of chicken pie' THats the 1st verse.

[@suki.143]

My music teacher brought me here

[@theanimatedpuppet8964]

Space cowboy fighting bring me here

[@iamawesome5643]

@supersingingfrog me too

[@Dwayne4007]

Nooooo fucking way😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@Musician84721]

I came here because this is a standard old time banjo tune....

[@shama081]

The version we're learning is went up to the mountain top to give my horn a blow thought i heard a pretty girl say yonder comes my beau fare thee well old joe clark fare thee well im gone fare thee well old joe clark good bye lucy long black bird in a wilow tree sings a mornfull song i wont hear that song no more tomorow ill be gone are thee well old joe clark fare thee well im gone fare thee well old joe clark good bye lucy long ...

[@rene8755]

Halt

[@bff1tv]

singin this for chous

[@gamergeek3000]

Sam Bush has a cool version of this song.

[@lukasz9395]

It's MANDALA

[@netmat04]

anybody else just find this because of Ian Dury?

[@lankydoug]

Joe won't marry an old maid I'll tell you the reason why her neck's so long and stringy he's afraid she'll never die.

[@luvez107]

that not it it old joe clark he build a house he build it for a week he build the floor above his head the sealing was under his feet rock a rock old joe clark rock a rock im gone rock a rock old joe clark goodbye lossey long

[@Lau19K]

AH I AM SO SORRY. I THOUGHT SHE MEANT THE BROTHERBAND. Instead of the Lost Stories. Lol yeah I read the Lost Stories and I loved them. What kind of fan would I be otherwise? Now i look like a giant idiot here in the comments section. Please forgive my memory lapse, i obviously hadn't had my coffee yet ;D

[@ogaaqil8813]

2029 Feb 22 anyone

[@zaevyonfoglevenus4047]

what the hell

[@luckbfern]

The lyrics graphics are obnoxious and make it hard to follow along

[@kandtfitt1945]

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