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Sounds like music from the Balkans

My grandfather, who passed away at age 71 back in 1966, grew a bit of tobacco (whatever the gov't allotted him to grow) back in the day. Plowed those fields with a mule, to the year he died. As a kid, I remember the tobacco barn and the earth smell of that barn.

Clean living.

I lived in the Outer Hebrides and they have similar.... they have a presenter who sings the first line of the psalm and the congregation sings at the end of the line.... enjoy! czcams.com/video/w62TN2iCP1g/video.htmlsi=fv831gCW3yVq_h7U

I miss seeing the Tabacco barns full of tobacco. My uncle grew tobacco. Then the government decided it was their job to control the farms. I was shocked to learn the government paid my uncle not to grow tabacco and corn.😢

Living in Appalachia is very tough life. It's a mix of people with tremendous pride and dedication to hard work and tradition combined with people too lazy or educated enough to get up and walk to the mailbox. As republicans get more control of these areas I would assume govt. programs that help them survive will fade away and take most of the isolated areas with it. I guess it's what we call progress in a capitalistic country built on greed.

My grandfather was a Bullman and grew up in this area. Would love to learn more about his life there. He’s passed.

I had a paperback hymnal that had these notes. I played out of it for church, as the pianist. I had no idea what the shaped notes meant! Thank you for sharing this!

This makes me feel ashamed 😔 of living such a "disposable "life style I take for granted. 😢 Because this is really what life and living should be about. God bless all.

LISTEN UP PEOPLE! This is what life is about. 😊

This sounds remarkably like Irish "Sean Nos" singing!

Beautiful.

I see these images and listen to the voice and feel as if I am home. It all seems so familiar. I grew up in GA, near Atlanta, but I see family faces from my childhood in your images. Cry. Weep.

My family are all low country, never part of Appalachia. My Grandad could only read shape notes, not regular music. I heard him sing like this many times. I had one uncle, married my Mom's sister, who was from "the hills". He didn't read any music, just played any piece he was shown on his fiddle. My aunt could read music but she didn't let it interfere with her playing.

Beautiful!!

Now outsiders are flooding into east tn and western nc and destroying it perminantly

Very similar to Scots Gaelic psalm singing.

I wonder if we are related my Franklin family hails from Townson TN

In between Baxley and Blackshear, Ga. on both sides of highway 15 grows about 250 acres of tobacco. It was being topped and suckered and the plants were in great shape. In South Georgia we would grow tobacco that we cured with heat from a fuel oil fired burner. We had a small tobacco allotment but we weren't full time farmers. In the beginning, we would hand crop a few leaves at a time. It would take 3 or 4 cropping before the whole plant is harvested. Later on we used hand cropping but we rode on a mechanical harvester. One of our neighbors had a Tie Master tying machine, it was like a sewing machine for tobacco. My favorite part was going to the tobacco sales.

wow.....the link between gospel, folk and western (gregorian/polyphoniv?) church music!!! amazing, more old recordings please

😍Beautiful 😍

Many thanks to Mr Franklin and his daughter and best wishes to both of them. A wonderful video.

Reminds a lot of my granpa, I remember the rolling store coming on Thursday, it was a red and gray school bus. Mr. Massingale. He’d trade with my grandma, she raised chickens. We were at the end of the red dirt road, life was simple and good.

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I lived in Madison 1984-1997. Every year my neighbors would go to harvested Tobacco. I was a little girl then. They said it was fun but also very hard labor. Tobacco and Corn what a lot of people harvest for extra cash during harvest season.

Could have background accompaniment to Amazing Grace, that's what it very much reminded me of! ❤ XXX

She is so proud of her husband. , this is so beautiful 😍

This is why we love farmers they feed the whole world while fighting our government trying t get them to stop 🛑 ! Thank you for being our real heroes 🦸‍♂️ ! You deserve what the senator and Congress have , not them . ❤❤❤❤💞💞💕💕💞💕💞💞

More propaganda in a tine where work no longer oays, the take away here is simply just because old and dead people sucked it and justify it until they are gone you too should suck it! Remember folks not only will the system use duckies abd bunnies to screw with your head but they'll use old folks too! Until our government stops sending money thats borrowed overseas, until the constitution is followed and there are no more illegal foreign entanglements and until they stop stealing our rights then selling them back to us in the form of licenses and permits then fuck it all! Only do the bare minimum and if that meabs becoming homeless willingly and going on a camping trip you don't return from then fine! Fuck em! The best way to end this crooked government is simply to walk away from the conveyor belt tgat feeds it money! Quit doing anything of any real value to the corporations and the dc scumbags! Stop letting old people get used to promote the false religion of work ethic and it's propaganda. It's bullshit!

He's 94? Wow! That's Amazing! He looks about 20 years Younger! He's in better shape than people in their 50s or even younger!

I think one of my favorite parts of this video was the little Lady standing at the end of the cooking tray scooping spoonfuls from the sides, and enjoying the finished product! It must have been delicious! Thank you all for the wonderful information, and sharing your beautiful prayer! GOD bless

Listen again still cry ✌️❤️

The Scots-Irish melody and scales like bagpipe drone music perfectly displayed here.

Awesome

Tim and Scott thank y'all so very much. Y'all do an awesome job and I thank y'all so very much. God bless you both . Great job guys. ❤❤

My dad did a garden for years. When he was younger adult, he even rented/leased property for a huge garden. Every night, after work (and on weekends) he tended to that garden. He said it took his mind off the problems at work. In his later years, it was just a backyard garden. He had to give it up for physical reasons in his mid 80s (nerve problems in his right leg left him crippled-up) but he would have loved to tend to his garden until the day he died (age 93). My dad was from Tennessee (born 1930). His grew up on a 40 acre farm. He spent many a day in his youth behind a plow drawn by a mule in the corn and tobacco fields. His mama also had a huge vegetable garden that she tended until her late 80s. I was glad to have spent several summers on that little farm as a kid. In high school, he bought a team of horses and skidded timber for the local lumber mill. He would have also loved to see/hear this video...although he would have been a bit envious of Jancer still going strong at age 94. It was sometimes hard to believe that my dad grew up dirt poor in the hills of Tennessee. He retired as a medical clinic administrator...his suit and tie was a far cry from those coveralls he wore as a boy. A nice thing? During his last several months of his life, he thought he was in a care facility back there in the hills of Tennessee. Thanks for the video!

Awesome people.

Thank you so very much for sharing all your stories and the good people you share with us . God bless you and all the families you shared with us. ❤❤❤ Love them all feel like I knowed them all my life .

They're so awesome and sweet

I had never heard it explained like this, thank you. And this is one step farther back in the hills from today's bluegrass! My first Bluegrass Festival was North Carolina I think it was 1976! There were groups playing everywhere in that parking lot! Thanks for taking me back!

thank you for showing us that these gems of human beings still exist. godspeed to those on both sides of the camera

Awesome song and beautiful voices Thank all y'all for sharing. Thank you Tim

Myself I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t wear overalls period!

Love to hear his story. Awesome man and family

It sounds pretty good when everybody is joining in. The guy by himself though, it has a rather forboding tone. My mom's side of the family is from that part of Pennsylvania. I would have to hear a song and then sing it from memory, that's how things work for me.

For why I cry

I miss tobacco season. Loved the smell right before it was cut. Was that everybody put out a set for some extra cash.

Good living never goes out of the ordinary,

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