One, I Love

9.One, I Love 3:45
Jean Ritchie / Geordiana obo Geordiana (ASCAP)

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The great Kentucky singer Jean Ritchie (1922-1915) explained the genesis of this song in a 2001 posting on Mudcat.org, the invaluable site for folk song lyrics and discussion. She heard a song fragment - the first verse - while listening to group practicing banjo (all male, because playing banjo was not ladylike), and slowed it down, added her own tune, and wrote more verses, borrowing some lines and images from other songs. I know roughly when I learned this - around 1981-1982 - but not how. I *think* it was from one of her recordings.

Guitar is in open g minor, capoed two, and (fingerpicked) banjo in open g minor, also capoed two.