Clifton Hicks
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"Going Across the Mountain" Tab
🕑 Added 2023-11-25 14:00:02 +0000 UTCI learned "Going Across the Mountain" from a recording of Frank Proffitt. At the time, I was living in an old house on Beaver Dam Road, about two miles from from Proffitt's home community of Reese, North Carolina.
The lyrics to this song contain an important historical record. During the American Civil War, men in Confederate-controlled Watauga County, North Carolina, who wished to join the U.S. Army could do so by sneaking into Johnson County, Tennessee. Many of them were murdered for taking this journey; either along the way, or after the war in retaliation. The protagonist in Proffitt's song makes it clear that he, too, might be ambushed along the way: "Well before the daylight, if nothing happens to me, I'll be way on down in old Tennessee."
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Daniel
Same here, tried all the tab links and it just returns me to the Home page.
Terry Finley
I see the link for the tab but cannot open it. It doesn't do anything when I try to click on it.
