"Old Joe Clark" (Five YouTube Examples Of This Old Time Music/Bluegrass Music Song)

The Biscuit Eaters, Feb 9, 2023

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part II of a two part pancocojams series on the Old Time Music /Bluegrass Music tune & song "Old Joe Clark".

This post showcases five YouTube video examples of the United States Old Time Music /Bluegrass Music tune & song "Old Joe Clark".

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/04/general-information-comments-about.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That post presents some general information and comments about the song/tune "Old Joe Clark". The Addendum of that post presents some information about and examples of floating verses from "Old Joe Clark" that are found in some other American Old Time Music/Bluegrass Music songs.

The earliest sources for these songs suggest that Black Americans were the originators of a number of the early verses for "Old Joe Clark" and the other American Old Time Music/Bluegrass Music songs that include those verses. 

The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and entertainment purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos and sound file and thanks to all the publishers of these examples on YouTube.

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ADDITIONAL SHOWCASE YOUTUBE VIDEOS/SOUND FILES 
These videos are given in no particular order and are numbered for referencing purposes only.

EXAMPLE #1 - Old Joe Clark

OldTimeMusic, Feb 23, 2009

Callahan Brothers perform Old Joe Clark in the 1945 Jimmy Wakely western "Springtime in Texas".

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EXAMPLE #2 - Old Joe Clark

Doc Watson, Mar 14, 2014

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group

Old Joe Clark · Doc Watson · Merle Watson · Sam Bush · Marty Stuart · T. Michael Coleman · Alan O'Bryant

Home Sweet Home

℗ 1998 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company

Released on: 1998-01-01

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EXAMPLE #3 - Old Joe Clark  
 

Dan D. Dirges, Jan 25, 2015

Dan D. Dirges performs the classic traditional folk song, Old Joe Clark.

lyrics - Old Joe Clark

Old Joe Clark's a fine old man

Tell you the reason why

He keeps good likker 'round his house

that Good old Rock and Rye---------

 

Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark

Fare thee well, I say

Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark

I'm a going away------

 

Old Joe Clark, the preacher's son

Preached all over the plain

The only text he ever knew

Was High, low, Jack and the game

 

Old Joe Clark he had a mule

His name was Morgan Brown

And every tooth in that mule's head

Was sixteen inches around---------

 

Old Joe Clark had a yellow cat

She would neither sing or pray

She stuck her nose in the butermilk jar

And washed her sins away

 

Old Joe Clark he had a house

Fifteen stories high

And every story in that house

Was filled with chicken pie-----------

 

I went down to Old Joe's house

He invited me to supper

I stumped my toe on the table leg

And stuck my nose in the butter

 

Now I wouldn't marry a widder

Tell you the reason why

She'd have so many children

They'd make those biscuits fly------------

 

Sixteen horses in my team

The leaders they are blind

And every time the sun goes down

There's a pretty girl on my mind

 

Eighteen miles of mountain road

And fifteen miles of sand

If ever travel this road again

I'll be a married man-----------

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EXAMPLE #4 - Old Joe Clark Singing Game Demo

Musicplay, Aug 9, 2017

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