Unwed Fathers by ZsigE
This is a cover of John Prine’s sad little song about a girl, a bus, and a man who done her wrong. Also babies. The first time I heard this song was on a BBC documentary about the rise of country music. At the end of the programme, they played Tammy Wynette’s performance of John Prine’s “Unwed Fathers”, and I thought it was just beautiful. Within about an hour, I had located the chords online and learnt to play it on the bass.
Unfortunately, this being the pre-Youtube days, I didn’t have an easy way of listening to the song again, with the result that the tune I remembered bore only a passing resemblance to the tune that Wynette had sung. And that’s the tune that I learnt, and that got hammered into my brain as I played the song over the next few years. Once I took up the uke, it was only a matter of time before this abomination made it onto the internet. And here it is, in a very simple, uke-and-voice arrangement.
My recording equipment isn’t what you’d call professional, so the quality has suffered a bit, and I’m not that great on the uke either. (Also, try to spot the high note that I can’t always reach.) So constructive criticism is very welcome!