Roustabout

Written by: [Traditional]
Language: English
Comments: Old-time, breakdown banjo tune from the Blue Ridge area of North Carolina/Virginia. The tune has attracted several sets of floating lyrics.

NOTE: Flatt & Scruggs recorded completely different banjo song called Roust-A-Bout written by Jake Lambert, Josh Graves in 1967 that begins "The fog is rolling out from Memphis, dark clouds are hangin' round your door..."
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Originals

Traditional