I Never Will Marry Pete Seeger 14 24 1963

[@eileenbebbington6747]

My husband went to hear Pete Seeger play the banjo when my husband was a teenager. He become a merchant seaman and bought a long neck banjo in New Yorker and became a folk singer. He came to South Africa for one year, met me and stayed almost forty eight years. We're now in England and he still plays the same banjo every day.

[@jackieshmueli1850]

greetings from South Africa and Israel,I just loved Pete Seeger heard him in 1963 here in Israel !

[@corneliadenninger5395]

Hi Eileen, what a nice story . All the best for your and your husband. Greetings Cornelia

[@elianu3817]

That's a true romance and romantic story All blessings

[@garethsmith3036]

what a delightful story

[@murielareno9369]

Linda Ronstadt has a beautiful version of this song.

[@steveroberts8719]

Pete was the best. Influenced generations of musicians--country, folk, bluegrass, protest, old-timey and just people who like to sing. RIP, Pete. I saw you perform live on 12 separate occasions here in SoCal.

[@anya_samayer_galpo]

Wonderful! Best folksinger ever we have.

[@luisalvarez3978]

They say that love's a gentle thing But it's only brought me pain For the only man I ever loved Has gone on the morning train I never will marry I'll be no man's wife I expect to live single All the days of my life Well the train pulled out The whistle blew With a long and a lonesome moan He's gone he's gone Like the morning dew And left me all alone I never will marry I'll be no man's wife I expect to live single All the days of my life Well there's many a change in the winter wind And a change in the cloud's design There's many a change in a young man's heart But never a change in mine I never will marry I'll be no man's wife I expect to live single All the days of my life

[@time4revolution]

Luis Alvarez Joan B

[@headdragondavidaustinsimmo4025]

My mom Mary was born Patricia in America she went to redwood high girls called her virgin Mary teased her one boy did she put knots on his head its on record at redwood high land of Goshen

[@terrihenricks4160]

When the Smothers Brothers sang this song they added, "I might mess around a little." Always good to keep your options open.

[@DonnieDarko1]

😂 👊 😉

[@king_fresh27]

damn he had a good voice

[@zezelee77]

BEST VERSION EVER LOVE YOU PETE

[@davepawlack9367]

love this song, just find it kinda funny the look on the crowds face seems like he had been playing a speed dating event. haha every one looks so sad singing the chorus . oh pete you'll be missed

[@bennyjazzful]

WOW Wonderful version from one of the very best folk singers of all time. I suspect that the audience were a little shocked by some of Pete's protest songs & in those days Melburians were a trifle staid ( not all of them ) as i was one of them & was deep into Rock & Roll & didn't get into Folk etc until later. From a 72yo Aussie fan.

[@Wrz2e]

I couldn't help but notice the audience's rather lacklustre reaction. I suppose, as you say, Australians (like British people) were a lot more emotioally reserved back then. I also took into consideration the fact that it is quite an emotional song and they may be simply demonstrating the appropriate gravity.

[@dermulller8591]

Don't forget, this took place in 1963. People acted (behaved?) a lot different back then. But check out how many joined Pete Seeger in singing his songs.

[@benvanderwoude4484]

I think of the Stanley Brothers when I hear this.

[@neilsailing]

A proper American.

[@arctichare8185]

That's not what he would have liked to be most known as.

[@dipankarchattopadhyay5341]

When America was great...

[@goestplus]

America wasn’t great then, just as it isn’t great now. Pete left the US on a world tour and gave concerts like this one in Melbourne to escape persecution and McCarthyism-meanwhile African Americans and their allies were being murdered in the streets in the struggle to secure rights that are still not guaranteed to this day. The US is a nation built on genocide, human trafficking, torture, and greed. America was never great, and I say this as someone who deeply deeply loves my country, but knows that we need radical change & reconciliation to move forward.

[@guillermoemiliohunicken6193]

@@goestplus yeeeees.... we need radical change & reconciliation to move forward.

[@mamamurphy3860]

One day i was a rambling down by the sea shore. the wind it did whistle and the water did roar. I spied a fair maiden make a pitiful cry. It sounded so lonesome in the waters nearby. Said ‘I never will marry. I'll be no man's wife. I expect to live single all the days of my life’. Sea shells in the ocean will be my death bed, the fish in deep waters swim over my head. She plunged her fair body in the waters so deep. She closed her pretty blue eyes in the waters to sleep. I never will marry. i'll be no mans wife. I expect to live single all the days of my life. The shells in the ocean shall be my death bed. The fish in deep waters swim over my head.

[@solsticecelt1]

Listen to the Johnston’s’ version, brilliant harmonies ☘️

[@Ottosparty17]

They all look so miserable!

[@Patmurtagh]

1:06

[@raggedblossom508]

The audience looks like they've all just come from a funeral. Don't they know who they're listening to?

[@martacorona5703]

yes very unemotional. Like they did not want to sing, Lol

[@arctichare8185]

Perhaps a sign of the times and prevailing attitudes.

[@SandfordSmythe]

There is a tradition in some cultures [Scots-Irish?] not to show much emotion when listening to such music. A blue grass concert in the East will have the audience go wild, while in the areas of its origin, the people sit and listen.

[@thies7831]

Which month is the 14th ? 14-24-1963 ...

[@ibji]

Mayteenth

[@thies7831]

@@ibji Of course ! How could that skip my sieved mind ?