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5/17/2007

Grayson and Whitter singing Ommie Wise

By Kenneth Rainey. Filed under: Audio, TweedBlog.

Harry Smith included this performance of Ommie Wise in his seminal Anthology of American Folk Music. It’s a good old-fashioned song about killing. Smith described it thusly: “Greedy girl goes to Adams Spring with liar; lives just long enough to regret it.” Educational.

Ommie Wise (MP3)

Courtesy of Archive.org.