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Benny Borg " The Singing Soldier " - Your'e Going to Leave the Old Home Jim, Tonight

by: Benny Borg " The Singing Soldier "

Topics: country, folk, old time, 1920s, Bill from Ellerslie's record collection

Columbia 15148-D... Recorded on April 2, 1927. Not much is known about Benny Borg except he was a singing soldier from Georgia and that he played something called his "double barreled guitar". This song, about a boy leaving home to seek his fortune and his return years later, is musically similar to much later folk songs.