Artist: Fiddlin' John Carson
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1923
Georgia fiddler with a song based on antebellum (pre Civil War) hymn Leave It There. Became a protest song after that conflict.
Covers:
Fiddlin' John Carson [as Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All]
Pete Seeger [as The Farmer Is The Man]
New Lost City Ramblers [idem on Songs Of The Depression; see also: How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live]
Ry Cooder [as Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Us All]
Normaal [as De Boer Dat Is De Keerl; top 10 NL in '19 following farmer protest against climate regulations in the Netherlands]
Original and first cover were reissued on Poor Man, Rich Man, a Rounder lp rounding up critical American country songs from the Great Depression, clearing once and for all protest songs were not a sixties thing exclusively.
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Arnold Rypens
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