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Glenn Yarbrough/Marilyn Child - We Come For To Sing [HD]

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Channel: Gary Larson · 2018 · People & Blogs

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Glenn Yarbrough and Marilyn Child sing 'We Come For To Sing' from their 1958 Elektra album 'Marilyn Child And Glenn Yarbrough Sing Folk Songs'. Fred Hellerman accompanies on guitar. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below along with some notes on Yarbrough from Wikipedia.

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We Come For To Sing

Singers - Glenn Yarbrough and Marilyn Child

Some come to dance, some come to play
Some merely come to pass time away
Some come to laugh, their voices do ring
But as for me I come for to sing

Some folks enjoy me, others do not
Some love to extol on what I ain't got
But I don't mind, it don't mean a thing
I'll keep on coming, just coming to sing 

Some come to dance, some come to play
Some merely come to pass time away
Some come to laugh, their voices do ring
But as for me I come for to sing

Songwriter: Traditional Song

Wikipedia states:

Glenn Robertson Yarbrough (January 12, 1930 – August 11, 2016) was an American folk singer  and guitarist. He was the lead singer (tenor) with the Limeliters from 1959 to 1963. He also had a prolific solo career, recording on various labels. Yarbrough was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Bruce Yarbrough and Elizabeth Yarbrough (née Robertson). He grew up in New York City where he lived with his mother. After leaving high school, he attended St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he roomed with Jac Holzman and began performing after he and Holzmann attended a concert by Woody Guthrie.

During the Korean War he served in the United States Army, first as a codebreaker then joined the entertainment corps performing in Korea and Japan. After military service, he moved to South Dakota, helped his father organize square dances, and started appearing on local television shows. By the mid-1950s, he started performing in clubs in Chicago, where he met club owner Albert Grossman and performers including Odetta and Shel Silverstein. One of  Elektra Records' first artists, he was one of the first singers to record the traditional "The House of the Rising Sun." In the late 1950s, Yarbrough moved to Aspen, Colorado, and ran a club, the Limelite. There he formed a folk group with Alex Hassilev and Louis Gottlieb, naming it after the club.

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