Ives, Burl - Down In The Valley Lyrics

Stir crazy, thank you!

a recording of a song from 1939 which follows the same song pattern and similar lyrics- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSKOjahYn9s&list=PLXYPX_I7ROpMGw9zbtEdu7s5yHjYtJUJ-&index=9&t=0s

My mom used to sing this to me as a kid. I love it! Now I sing it to my kids.

My grandma sang this song well half of it because she forgot and she died and i love the song

Racheal Bow what

This is my grandmother's song. For the whole 28 years of my life she always sings the exact same line in this song!!!

My Grandaddy used to sing this song all the time while we were on the boat catching catfish in the lake and riding the golf kart past my dads treehouse. Now all I can think of when I hear this is him laying in a hospital bed loosing his mind and my brother trying his best to sing it through tears at his funeral...I miss my Grandaddy so much and want to go back to that lake and play in the bright red clay near the lake again.

👍👍👍👍 I love it so great 👍👍👍👍

جميلة

I've never seen him without a beard!

A wonderful singer and actor. RIP Burl. Jimmy crack corn, another of his famous songs. Movie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof!😇

Grandma used to sing this to me and my sisters. Good memories love you Grandma miss you rip s

Wow. Just so beautiful. Burl Ives-

My granny would sing this to me as a baby/child in a big recliner while holding and rocking me before bed... I now sing it to my baby while rocking her to sleep ❤️

Puts me to sleep... in a good way

I was playing a video game online with some friends and one of them asked if anyone knew the song about a valley down low. Well since we were on discord I keyed up and started singing this song. This was the very first song my Dad taught me to play on the guitar. Brought back some memories

My grandma would sing this to me when I had nightmares to help me sleep. So many memories.

I think Burl Ives sang about every song written during his time.  I recall singing this song in school during sing-song class (about 1962).  P.S.:  my grandfather and Mr. Ives were personally acquainted.

Build me a castle 40 feet high so I can see her as she rides by......ahhhhhhhh

Here from the book "Christy" by Catherine Marshall . . . always wondered what the tune to this was!

my mom would always sing this to me when i cried as a little girl. today i remembered it, and it brought tears to my eyes once again.

Americana at it's best.

Самое прекрасное исполнение. Великолепная песня.

My friend keeps saying this is from up. I'm confused someone tell me if this is from up please

Original grossberger

I so remember this beautiful song used to be sung by my younger brother in the early 1970s he learnt at his school.

The movie STIR CRAZY brought me here..a million laughs. Thanks Gene and Richard!!!!

See pictures of Burl Ives in the bathtub taking a bubble bath in The Spiral Road. His gluttonous belly is unbelievable and his exposed naval is cute. Hii boobs are cute. Burl Ives has big boobs for a man and a plump pink bare butt

Who’s here because of The Sinner, season 2?

I don't know what to say or think about this song and his voice, I just absolutely love everything about it, so, so, so beautiful. Thank God for Stir crazy or I probably would have never known about it !!!

The Sinner brings me here <3

My dad love this song 💋💖

My mom that's all I have to say :'( rip mama

I love listening to Great songs like is and I love it

My mother sang this song to me when I was a young child. Mother was born in 1898.

Sweet memories

Was singi g this today and my grandson told me it was a very pretty one..I simply agreed

Bless to rudolph the Christmas movie original reindeer and of course my granny. A true love story

Burl Ives was one of those singers whose voice could sooth the most savage of heart;s This was music when songs were truly heart felt

I love you Grandpa, you used to sing this song to me. Look forward to your release from Prison in 2028. Why'd you rob that bank?

Is your grandpa still alive?

Too funny !

This was one of my dad's favorite song. Funny a Puerto Rican boy growning up in New York city durning the 60's. He was raised in the city with the heart of a country boy. Miss every time I here it.

This is such a beautiful song. It really is.

A couple years ago, I sang a cover of it. Here's the link of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuWLRw1Rgz4

My obnoxious song story: My mother's mother died when I was 15 of lung cancer. I think about her alot lately. She sung this song to me when I was a kid but I forgot about it until one day at work a guy was singing it. I immediately recognized it even after all these years and he told me the lyrics (which is all you need to find it.)

My grandfather and I always sang this when I was little. Rest In Peace Pap. I love you

I remember when I first watched stir crazy

Stir Crazy sent me here

My dad would sing this to me when I was little. I was singing it to him when he was dying and took his last breath. Three weeks later, I sang it for my mom when she died.

I'm so sorry..

please don't sing it to me

So sad for your loss. What a beautiful memory your parents gave you. Your mom and dad must have been very close to leave together.

My greatest condulences! I'm very sorry about your great loss! But I think you did a very great, heartwarming thing as you were there and held your parents hands when they passed away... . They are gone, but not surely dead! Only the forgotten is dead!

@Farmall 😃

Does anyone remember 12 inch records. ( If you don't here's a clue. They preceded 8 tracks and cassettes. My father being Dutch got a copy of "Down to the sea in ships". We played it so many times that I knew the words to the every song on both sides of the record. I'll never forget Burl Ives.

Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor

Stir Crazy brought me here

For someone to give this a thumbs down, they must have a deep empty void inside of them where nothing grows, or if it does, it s better left unsown.

A tearjerker, this. Grabs you by the throats and doesn't let go, not for a moment. Class, man, class.

mom used to sing this a lot , wado for posting

my mom sang this to me. I love it so

this was my grandpa's favorite song and he jest recently past away and I listing to this song and cry it feels like he's still singing it to me

All these people talking about how their parents or grandparents use to sing this song to them....back when people sang for enjoyment, and most of them knew a lot of songs. In the future people will reminisce about how "grandpa used to show me this song on Youtube before I went to bed". Nobody sings songs anymore, like there are "normal people" and there are "singers" who sing songs. Sad.

yes but it is changing i use otsing to my daughter and now her fiance sings to her in broken english...he is from Europe and his english is getting better all the time but she is the only one he will sing for..i SAY GO DUDE lol

Probably mostly true.
But you can change that! I can't sing for crap haha. If you can sing...do.

A very talented balladeer!

first song I heard... :)

i loveor songs

some would bitch if they were hung with a new rope

mr. taylor

Such a sad song!

I remember back when I was a little boy my grandpa used to sing and play this on his ukulele. I so miss that.

When I was a really little boy, maybe when I was like 2, my aunt would babysit me and she used to sing this song to calm me down if I was crying, and she would hold me in her rocking recliner. I very clearly remember that. :) It was the Down in the Valley part, not the Birmingham Jail. lol.

I'm 43 yrs old and I remember singing this in music class like in 1st or 2nd grade. That very old music teacher sure taught us a lot of very old folk songs. She would play different interments in the middle of the room and we would sing in a circle around her. I was so young I have forgotten her name and all the songs she taught us. But... every once in a while, her an old folk song and thank her. This is one of those great songs. Thank you for your part in sculpting my love for music.

I remember learning these songs in 1st grade too. Folk music is so important.

I remember this song from second grade.  My second grade was about 10 years before yours (1962).   We sang "dear" instead of "love".

You know I'd like to enjoy this song and Ives' rendering of it in its proper context, as a fine example of American Folk music, but ... Stir Crazy ..

@John hackling
proof?

@clem Joseph
citation please

fuck off please

@roger huff
lol

betty  crocker is  stir crazy

thx for posting!!!!

your welcome

this is such a beautiful yet simple song , im in tears at the way its delivered. its so serene .

My first memory of my father was him singing me this song

was he a jailbird?

That is a beautiful memory.

One of my earliest memories is my granny playing this on her guitar and singing it to me. I was about 5

jerry garcia down in the valley

Megan Reed me too. Just without the guitar. It was always around bed time

I have one thing to say and that's stir crazy

This old folk song dates back to about 1927 and has been recorded by many artists over the years. I like Burl Ives, but perhaps Slim Whitman's version is the best version recorded. Thanks for sharing this one.

THIS isn't fair, this planet and our existence is utterly exhausting. Lies, love and happiness, they are all the same. Our 'Human Condition" is disturbing.

Suicide is always a consideration.

I wouldn't be upset or angry if I thought that would solve all my problems. I'd just do it

@Peter Pratsch I suppose so. I have had similar thoughts of a simple human condition, but it only ceases to seem bland once another perspective is considered.

My dad use to play this song on a guitar and sing it to me before going to bed.

Mine too!! Just sitting here listening thinking about that then read your comment! Beautiful song

Jonny cash

ty all i just play what i like  and dont take subscribers

The first time I had heard of this song was in the movie Along The Great Divide with Kirk Douglas, Walter Brennan, and Virginia Mayo.

6 dislikes. 6 idiots.

violets loved you

Burl Ives is / was awesome.I loved him as a child.

this song and 500 miles were our lullabyes. Thanks mom. I only remembered a couple of the verses when I sang em to Mou' gemu

I wish I could sing, I would love to cover this.  I've always loved this song., ever since I was a pup coming up in the Ozark Mountains. 

+Burl Brooks (Moose) I wish I could sing too, I would cover this also, and it would be a hit if I was handsome, and If I could play the guitar and if I knew all the words.

we sung this song in school and loved listening to Burl Ives on the record player. those were the days!

Haven`t heard Burl Ives in years. He had that sort of voice that was full of love and gentle

my boyfriends grandma use to sing this to ever grand
child

My mom used to sing this to me when I was little. Brings back a lot of memories.

my aunt sang it to me when I was really little. :) My mom would sing You Are my Sunshine to me, lol.

I love Burl Ives' voice. There's something comforting and familiar about it. Beautiful song.

Very comforting

Renee N. I agree!

I love you grandma!! And will always cry when I hear this!! This is your song!!

Only music has a way of bringing memories back hard and all at once and brings you to tears

@Benjamin Nichelson O mein popa

@electr1cdreams O Mien PoPa

Eddie Fisher O Mien Po Pa

I grandma sung this to me too I’m still young, only 14 and I’m glad to be able to pass this song on.

I heard this on that one movie stir crazy

My dad used to sing this to me :)

mine too... I was tiny, he sandwiched me on his lap, btwn him and the guitar.....

Learnt to playy dis finally !! Fairly simple rhythm but sounds so NAICE !!! :))

when I was probably 7 yrs older I had several Burl Ives records and I loved his voice...he was comforting...and growing up in a time at the end of WWII, we needed music that would be soothing. thank you for this;)

Brings back memories of my grandma singing it to me..

BURL IVES, THE BEST OF THE BEST HE HAS NO EQUAL

yes I think you are correct````````

Reminds me of my dad :)

Burl Ives had an incredible collection of folk songs. One of his albums was dedicated just to children's material and is well worth looking up. (Froggie Went A Courtin is a classic) He also published a paperback book of folk songs with the words and music of many of his most popular tunes. It was called The Burl Ives Song Book (Ballantine) and a lot of fun for anyone into the old folk stuff.

Ives was identified in the 1950 pamphlet Red Channels and blacklisted as an entertainer with supposed Communist ties.[22] In 1952 he cooperated with the House Committee on Unamerican Activities (HUAC) and agreed to testify - Wikipedia

My dad used to sing this to me every single night. LOve this song

When it comes to film, Burl Ives can stand on his own two feet. He won his own Oscar for acting. My father has told me that he is also known for collecting old folk songs from the passing generation that might be lost to history and recording them so that they would be preserved. Truly a man who left this world a little better for having been in it. I was very sad as a boy when I heard that he passed away.

The song sung in the film 'stir crazy'

It never sounds as good unless your mother, father, or grandparent is singing it to you :)