WAY DOWN IN ALABAMA

Created on 02/04/2010
Latest update on 02/01/2023

Artist: Smyth County Ramblers
Author: Louis Staab
Label: Victor
Year: 1927

Plantation song written around 1889. The sad story of the courtship and forced parting of two slaves.

Covers:

1929:

Ballard Cross [as Lorainna]

1930:

Carter Family [as No More The Moon Shines On Lorena; crediting A.P. Carter]

1935:

Delmore Brothers [as Lorena The Slave]

1937:

Blue Sky Boys [as On The Old Plantation]

1938:

Joe & Alma (The Kentucky Girls) [as Lorena]

1979:

Alex Chilton [as No More The Moon Shines On Lorena on Like Flies On Sherbert]

1984:

Replacements [idem on When The Shit Hits The Fans]

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