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Joan Baez - Portland Town [HD]+

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Channel: Gary Larson · 2017 · People & Blogs

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Joan Baez sings 'Portland Town' from her 1963 Vanguard album 'Joan Baez In Concert, Part 2'. The album has live recordings of songs from her early 1963 concert tours. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below.

The songwriter Derroll Adams was from Portland, Oregon so the video has scenes from Portland, nearby Mount Hood and faraway (but in Oregon) Crater Lake. The following information is from Wikipedia:  Adams was born Derroll Lewis Thompson in Portland, Oregon. At 16, he served in the Army and later in the Coast Guard. He was a tall, lanky banjo player with a deep voice. He was busking around the West Coast music scene in the 1950s when he met Ramblin' Jack Elliott in the Topanga Canyon area of Los Angeles. The two traveled around and recorded albums, among them Cowboys and The Rambling Boys.

This video is a complete redo of the earlier video for this song with the WAV version of the song file used for best audio, the lyrics added to the video and all (but one) images changed. 

[Vinyl/Lyrics/16-Images/WAV]


Portland Town

Singer - Joan Baez

I was born in Portland town
Was born in Portland town
Yes I was, yes I was
Yes I was

Was born in Portland town
Got married in Portland town
Yes I did, yes I did
Yes, I did

Got married in Portland town
Had children one, two, three
Yes I did, yes I did
Yes, I did

They sent them away to war
Ain't got no kids no more
No I ain't, no I ain't
No, I ain't

I was born in Portland town
Was born in Portland town
Yes I was, yes I was
Yes, I was

Songwriter: Derroll Adams

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