This Has Nothing To Do With Abraham Lincoln

[Gene C]

This has nothing to do with Lincoln.
I just found this while looking for something else and found it interesting.

Remember Festus Haggen from Gunsmoke?
Remember the TV show Have Gun Will Travel?

You might enjoy this old song "Noah's Dove" from 1960.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-EzH7VyNbk

Ken Curtis aka Festus sings an abbreviated version of Noah's Dove or Fare Thee Well, also known as Dink's Song , a love ballad that has the lyrics changed over time. According to Wikipedia "The first historical record of the song was by ethnomusicologist John Lomax in 1909, who recorded it as sung by an African American woman called Dink, as she washed her husband's clothes in a tent camp of migratory levee-builders on the bank of the Greater Calhoun Bayou River"

Want to know more?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dink%27s_Song

[Anita]

Thanks Gene! I watched the original shows when they first aired and now some of the reruns. Didn't realize "Festus" (aka Ken Curtis) with his high pitched twang, had such a melodic singing voice. Dink's Song is a moving love ballad with quite a history.

[LincolnMan]

I first remember Ken Curtis as one of the actors starring in John Wayne’s movie The Alamo. He didn’t nothing like Festus!

[Gene C]

This has nothing to do with Lincoln, sort of.

Have you heard the song "Lincoln and Liberty Too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrONwHCtMpM

Here is a folk song of the same tune titled "Dead Eye Sam" by a folk music group, Easy Riders, from 1963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q7ort6a...4&index=99