DOWN ON PENNY'S FARM
Created on 03/03/2001Latest update on 05/10/2023
Artist: Bentley Boys
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1929
Reissued on the Anthology of American Folk Music. Adapted from the older song Hard Times. Hard times indeed in the year of the Wall Street crash.
Covers:
- 1934:
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers [as Tanner's Farm]
- 1935:
Bascom Lamar Lunsford [as Robert's Farm]
- 1944:
Pete Seeger [as Penny's Farm]
- 1959:
Holy Modal Rounders [idem]
- 1961:
Bob Dylan [as Hard Times In New York Town; opening number Bootleg Series, copying the Bentley vocals]
- 1971:
- 2003:
- 2016:
Dylan knew Harry Smith's Anthology through and through; see also: Frog Went A Courtin', The House Carpenter, Stack O' Lee Blues, James Alley Blues and The Wagoner's Lad.
