2017 - 07 - 13 - Lorena - a photo on Flickriver

2017 - 07 - 13 - Lorena

            The Carter Family's brilliant "No More the Moon Shines on Lorena" was even more brilliantly (and shambollically) covered by Alex Chilton. Unquestionably one of my favorite 1000 songs.

 No More The Moon Shines On Lorena

Way down upon the old plantation
Old Massey used to own me as a slave
He had a yeller gal he called Lorena
And we courted where the wild bananas waved

For long years there we courted
And we were as happy as one
And my hard work for old Massey
And the happiness of life had just begun

No more the moon shines on Lorena
As we'd sit and watch the coons among the corn
And the possums laying on the wild bananas
And the old owl a hootin like a horn

One day I called to see my dear Lorena
I thought she would meet me at the gate
But they took her away to old Virginy
And left me to mourn for her fate

For years I have longed to see her
And the thoughts of her was ever in my head
One day Massey read me a letter
Telling me that Lorena she was dead

But I know that her soul has gone to heaven
And there she is ever free from pain
And to her a brighter crown is given
And no more she will wear the darkie's chain



One fascinating thing about this song is how the Carter Family knew in the 1930s that it would have been a nightmare for a slave to have been sold from the Caribbean ("where the wild bananas waved" to America ("Old Virginny"). An important early song condemning the horrors of American slavery. 
   

Taken on: July 13, 2017

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