White Dove (In the Deep Rolling Hills)

DESCRIPTION: "In the deep rolling hills of old Kentucky/Virginia, There's a place that I love so well...." "White dove will mourn in sorrow, The willows will hang their heads. I live my life in sorrow Since mother and daddy are dead." The singer recalls their home
AUTHOR: probably Carter Stanley (source: various LPs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1949 (recording, Stanley Brothers)
KEYWORDS: home mother father death
FOUND IN: US(So)
RECORDINGS:
The Stanley Brothers, "The White Dove" (Columbia 20577, 1949)
Charlie Glenn, "White Dove" (Piotr-Archive #7, recorded 07/14/2020)
NOTES [58 words]: This has been exceptionally popular with bluegrass groups -- it has all the basic ingredients of a bluegrass song: home, mountains, mother, death, insipidity.... There isn't much evidence that it's traditional, though -- a 1971 fragment in the Max Hunter collection, plus the recording in the Piotr archive; I suspect both derive from recordings. - RBW
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