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In 1957 America was ready for a new style of music. Just
out of college, Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds and Dave Guard
took dormant folk music and gave it a comic twist
irresistible to the college crowd (and just about everyone
else). The music was rooted in American Popular culture,
but performed with a refreshing style that now seems
timeless. Like the Beatles, The Kingston Trio created a
national audience for their new style of music, causing a
ripple effect on the entire music industry. When Tom Dooley
went gold in 1958, the folk revival was born. In no time
The Limeliters, The Brothers Four, Chad Mitchell and The
Smothers Bros. all found an audience. It was this "folk
revival" that set the stage for Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter
Paul & Mary, The Byrds, and the protes More...

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  • 'Round About the Mountain Lyrics
  • 500 Miles Lyrics
  • A Little Soul Is Born Lyrics
  • A Rollin' Stone Lyrics
  • A Round About Christmas Lyrics
  • A Taste of Honey Lyrics
  • A Worried Man Lyrics
  • Across the Wide Missouri Lyrics
  • Adieu To My Island Lyrics
  • Adios Farewell Lyrics
  • Ah, Woe, Ah, Me Lyrics
  • All My Sorrows Lyrics
  • All The Good Times Lyrics
  • All Through The Night Lyrics
  • Allentown Jail Lyrics
  • Ally Ally Oxen Free Lyrics
  • Ann Lyrics
  • Aspen Gold Lyrics
  • Away Rio Lyrics
  • Babe, You've Been On My Mind Lyrics
  • Bad Man's Blunder Lyrics
  • Ballad Of the Quiet Fighter Lyrics
  • Ballad of the Thresher Lyrics
  • Banua Lyrics
  • Bay of Mexico Lyrics
  • Big Ball In Boston Lyrics
  • Big Ship Glory Lyrics
  • Billy Goat Hill Lyrics
  • Bimini Lyrics
  • Blow The Candle Out Lyrics
  • Blow Ye Winds Lyrics
  • Blowin' in the Wind Lyrics
  • Blue Eyed Gal Lyrics
  • Blue Tattoo Lyrics
  • Bonny Hielan' Laddie Lyrics
  • Bottle of Wine Lyrics
  • Brown Mountain Light Lyrics
  • Buddy Better Get on Down the Line Lyrics
  • Bye, Bye, Thou Little Tiny Child Lyrics
  • C'mon Betty Home Lyrics
  • Carrier Pigeon Lyrics
  • Children of the Morning Lyrics
  • Chilly Winds Lyrics
  • Coal Tattoo Lyrics
  • Coast of California Lyrics
  • Colorado Trail Lyrics
  • Colours Lyrics
  • Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies Lyrics
  • Come Along, Julie Lyrics
  • Come Gather the Time Lyrics
  • Coming from the Mountains Lyrics
  • Como Se Viene, Se Va Lyrics
  • Coo Coo U Lyrics
  • Coplas Lyrics
  • Coplas Revisited Lyrics
  • Corey, Corey Lyrics
  • Cortelia Clark Lyrics
  • Dancing the Distance Lyrics
  • Darlin' Are You Dreaming Lyrics
  • Deportee Lyrics
  • Desert Pete Lyrics
  • Dogie's Lament Lyrics
  • Don't Cry Katie Lyrics
  • Don't You Weep Mary Lyrics
  • Dooley Lyrics
  • Dorie Lyrics
  • E Inu Tatou E Lyrics
  • Early in the Mornin' Lyrics
  • Early Morning Rain Lyrics
  • Easy To Arrange Lyrics
  • El Matador Lyrics
  • En El Agua Lyrics
  • Everglades Lyrics
  • Fairwell Captain Lyrics
  • Farewell Lyrics
  • Farewell Adelita Lyrics
  • Fast Freight Lyrics
  • Folksinger's Song Lyrics
  • Follow Now, O Shepherds Lyrics
  • Four Strong Winds Lyrics
  • Gaze on Other Heavens Lyrics
  • Genny Glenn Lyrics
  • Georgia Stockade Lyrics
  • Getaway John Lyrics
  • Glorious Kingdom Lyrics
  • Go Tell It On The Mountain Lyrics
  • Go Tell Roger Lyrics
  • Go Where I Send Thee Lyrics
  • Goin' Away for to Leave You Lyrics
  • Gonna Go Down the River Lyrics
  • Goo Ga Gee Lyrics
  • Goober Peas Lyrics
  • Good News Lyrics
  • Goodnight Irene Lyrics
  • Goodnight, My Baby Lyrics
  • Gotta Travel On Lyrics
  • Green Grasses Lyrics
  • Greenback Dollar Lyrics
  • Guardo el Lobo Lyrics
  • Gue Gue Lyrics
  • Gypsy Rose And I Don't Give A Curse Lyrics
  • Hangman Lyrics
  • Hanna Lee Lyrics
  • Hard Travelin' Lyrics
  • Hard, Ain't It Hard Lyrics
  • Haul Away Lyrics
  • Hawaiian Night Lyrics
  • High Heeled Shoes Lyrics
  • Hit and Run Lyrics
  • Hobo's Lullaby Lyrics
  • Home From The Hill Lyrics
  • Honey, Are You Mad at Your Man? Lyrics
  • Hope You Understand Lyrics
  • I'm A Rake And Rambin' Boy Lyrics
  • I'm Going Home Lyrics
  • I Bawled Lyrics
  • I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound Lyrics
  • I Like To Hear THe Rain Lyrics
  • If I Had a Ship Lyrics
  • If You Don't Look Around Lyrics
  • If You See Me Go Lyrics
  • Inter Changeable Love Lyrics
  • Isle In THe Water Lyrics
  • It Was Very Good Year Lyrics
  • Jackson Lyrics
  • Jane, Jane, Jane Lyrics
  • Jesse James Lyrics
  • Jocko And The Trapeze Lady Lyrics
  • Just Once Around The Clock Lyrics
  • Karu Lyrics
  • La Bamba Lyrics
  • Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream Lyrics
  • Last Thing on My Mind Lyrics
  • Leave My Woman Alone Lyrics
  • Lei Pakalana Lyrics
  • Lemon Tree Lyrics
  • Less of Me Lyrics
  • Let's Get Together Lyrics
  • Lion In The Winter Lyrics
  • Little Boy Lyrics
  • Little Light Lyrics
  • Little Maggie Lyrics
  • Little Play Soldiers Lyrics
  • Lock All the Windows Lyrics
  • Long Black Veil Lyrics
  • Long Time Blues Lyrics
  • Longest Beer Of The Night Lyrics
  • Looking For The Sunshine Lyrics
  • Love's Been Good to Me Lyrics
  • Love Comes A-Trickling Down Lyrics
  • Love Has Gone Lyrics
  • Low Bridge Lyrics
  • Mangwani Mpulele Lyrics
  • Marcelle Wahine Lyrics
  • MarkTwain Lyrics
  • Mary Mild Lyrics
  • Mary Was Pretty Lyrics
  • Medley: Tanga Tika/Toerau Lyrics
  • Midnight Special Lyrics
  • Molly Dee Lyrics
  • More Poems Lyrics
  • My Lord What a Mornin' Lyrics
  • My Ramblin' Boy Lyrics
  • M.T.A. Lyrics
  • New York Girls Lyrics
  • No One to Talk My Troubles to Lyrics
  • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) Lyrics
  • Nothing More To Look Forward To Lyrics
  • O Ken Karanga Lyrics
  • O Willow Waly Lyrics
  • Oh, Cindy Lyrics
  • Oh, Miss Mary Lyrics
  • Oh, Sail Away Lyrics
  • Oh, Yes, Oh Lyrics
  • Old Joe Clark Lyrics
  • Old Joe Hannah Lyrics
  • Old Kentucky Land Lyrics
  • Oleanna Lyrics
  • One More Round Lyrics
  • One More Town Lyrics
  • One Too Many Mornings Lyrics
  • Parchment Farm Blues Lyrics
  • Pastures of Plenty Lyrics
  • Patriot Game Lyrics
  • Pay Me My Money Down Lyrics
  • Poor Ellen Smith Lyrics
  • Portland Town Lyrics
  • Poverty Hill Lyrics
  • Pullin' Away Lyrics
  • Put Your Money Away Lyrics
  • Raspberries, Strawberries Lyrics
  • Razors in the Air Lyrics
  • Red River Shore Lyrics
  • Remember the Alamo Lyrics
  • Reuben James Lyrics
  • Reverend Mr. Black Lyrics
  • Rider Lyrics
  • River Run Down Lyrics
  • Road To Freedom Lyrics
  • Rocky Lyrics
  • Rollin' Stone Lyrics
  • Rolling River Lyrics
  • Roving Gambler/This Train Lyrics
  • Ruby Red Lyrics
  • Run Molly, Run Lyrics
  • Run The Ridges Lyrics
  • Runaway Song Lyrics
  • Running Out Of Tomorrow Lyrics
  • Rusing in the Rain Lyrics
  • Sail Away, Ladies Lyrics
  • Sally, Don't You Grieve Lyrics
  • Salty Dog Lyrics
  • San Miguel Lyrics
  • Santo Anno Lyrics
  • Santy Anno Lyrics
  • Saro Jane Lyrics
  • Scarlet Ribbons Lyrics
  • Scotch and Soda Lyrics
  • Sea Fever Lyrics
  • Seasons in the Sun Lyrics
  • Senora Lyrics
  • Shady Grove/Lonesome Traveller Lyrics
  • She Was Too Good To Me Lyrics
  • Sing Out Lyrics
  • Sing We Noel Lyrics
  • Sinking of the Reuben James Lyrics
  • Sloop John B. Lyrics
  • So Hi Lyrics
  • Some Fool Made a Soldier of Me Lyrics
  • Someday Soon Lyrics
  • Somerset Gloucestershire Wassail Lyrics
  • Sometimes Love Is Better When It's Gone Lyrics
  • Song for a Friend Lyrics
  • South Coast Lyrics
  • South Wind Lyrics
  • Speckled Roan Lyrics
  • Spinnin' of the World Lyrics
  • Stay Awhile Lyrics
  • Stories of Old Lyrics
  • Strange Day Lyrics
  • Take Her Out of Pity Lyrics
  • Tattooed Lady Lyrics
  • Texas Across The Tiver Lyrics
  • The Ballad of the Shape of Things Lyrics
  • The Escape of John Webb Lyrics
  • The First Time Lyrics
  • The Golden Spike Lyrics
  • The Hunter Lyrics
  • The Jug Of Punch Lyrics
  • The Last Month Of The Year Lyrics
  • The Long Black Rifle Lyrics
  • The Merry Minuet Lyrics
  • The Mountains O'Mourne Lyrics
  • The New Frontier Lyrics
  • The River Is Wide Lyrics
  • The Seine Lyrics
  • The Shape of Things Lyrics
  • The Sloop John B Lyrics
  • The Streets of Laredo Lyrics
  • The Tattoed Lady Lyrics
  • The Tijuana Jail Lyrics
  • The Unfortunate Miss Baily Lyrics
  • The Wagoner's Lad Lyrics
  • The Wanderer Lyrics
  • The Way Old Friends Do Lyrics
  • The White Snows Of Winter Lyrics
  • The Wines Of Madeira Lyrics
  • The Work Song Lyrics
  • The World's Last Authentic Playboys Lyrics
  • The World Needs A Melody Lyrics
  • Them Poems Lyrics
  • These Seven Men Lyrics
  • They Are Gone Lyrics
  • They Call the Wind Maria Lyrics
  • Thirsty Boots Lyrics
  • This Land Is Your Land Lyrics
  • This Little Light Lyrics
  • This Mornin', This Evenin', So Soon Lyrics
  • Those Brown Eyes Lyrics
  • Those Who Are Wise Lyrics
  • Three Jolly Coachmen Lyrics
  • Three Song Lyrics
  • Tic, Tic, Tic Lyrics
  • Tnaga Tika Lyrics
  • To Be Redeemed Lyrics
  • To Morrow Lyrics
  • Tom Dooley Lyrics
  • Tomorrow Is A Long Time Lyrics
  • Try To Remember Lyrics
  • Turn Around Lyrics
  • Two-Ten, Six-Eighteen Lyrics
  • Uta Wena Lyrics
  • Verandah Of Millium August Lyrics
  • Walkin' This Road To My Town Lyrics
  • Watsha Lyrics
  • We Wish You A Merry Christmas Lyrics
  • Weeping Willow Lyrics
  • When I Was Young Lyrics
  • When My Love Was Here Lyrics
  • When the Saints Go Marching In Lyrics
  • When You've Been Away for a Long Time Lyrics
  • Where Are You Going Little Boy? Lyrics
  • Where Have All the Flowers Gone Lyrics
  • Whistling Gypsy Lyrics
  • Who's Gonna Hold Her Hand Lyrics
  • Will You Love Me If I Don't Do Coke? Lyrics
  • Wimoweh Lyrics
  • With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm Lyrics
  • With You My Johnny Lyrics
  • World I Used To Know Lyrics
  • Yes I Can Feel It Lyrics
  • You're Gonna Miss Me Lyrics
  • You Don't Knock Lyrics
  • Young Roddy McCorley Lyrics
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    Review about Kingston Trio

    It is Good | Reviewer: Frank
        ------ About the song Lion In The Winter performed by Kingston Trio

    I agree with you Eugene. I stumbled on it on Youtube and play it frequently. Linda does a nice little falsetto at times that I never heard her do elsewhere and Hoyt with his gravely vibrato makes for a real musical treat.


    A Collaboration of The Kingston Trio and the Mamas & Papas | Reviewer: Dick Dutson
        ------ About the song Chilly Winds performed by Kingston Trio

    One of the prettiest songs John Stwewart ever wrote. He wrote it with John Phillips from the Mamas and Papas out on Sausalito bay one afternoon when he (John Stewart) was a member of the famed Kingston Trio in the 19060s. They'd borrowed a rowboat from Nick Reynolds (one of the other guys in The Kingston Trio) and rowed out about two miles in shorts and t-shirts to go fishing, not knowing the weather was about to change. About an hour later, the winds picked up and the temperature dropped considerably. At some point, one of them said, "Geez, these are really chilly winds." To which the other replied, "Hey, that's a great title for a song." Because they didn't have anything to write on, they ended up rowing over to The Kingston Trio's secretary's (Charlotte Larson) house and (according to Charlotte) wrote about 50 verses. The best recording of the song is on The Kingston Trio's College Concert album recorded live at UCLA in 1962.


    Kingston Trio--Straight Up | Reviewer: Don Spaeth
        ------ About the song Haul Away performed by Kingston Trio

    Haul Away is a beautiful example of the purity of the early Trio's song choices and production values. Dave Guard shines with his flailing banjo and passionate vocal. The Trio harmonies are wonderful--Bob and Nick jump on each chorus a bit like the Clancy Brothers. I remember playing each new Trio album and being thrilled by the stories each song told--sometimes in foreign languages--and by the infectious joy Dave, Bob and Nick lent to every performance.
    A great album from a long gone world. Haul Away, Joe.....


    Bad Man's Blunder | Reviewer: Jim Green
        ------ About the song Bad Man's Blunder performed by Kingston Trio

    I've never seen the lyrics before today, but I've owned the 45 for about 100 years, and there are a few places I disagree: 1)2nd. verse--early "in the morning", and I never heard "DOWN in Mexico". Aside from all that, it's good to see the words finally. There were parts I never could figure beforehand.


    Classic Trio | Reviewer: Don Spaeth
        ------ About the song South Coast performed by Kingston Trio

    "South Coast" is one of those memorable story songs that the Trio seemed to love. From the opening flamenco-esque guitar riff to Nick Reynolds' brilliant vocal this cut is classic Trio. Simple arrangement of guitars and bass; dark,brooding Em/Am/D chord pattern; tragic story line. A great folk song delivered by a great folk group at the height of their creative powers. These were the Dave Guard years--filled with passion for folk music first, pop success second.


    As I remember the lyrics.... | Reviewer: Anonymous
        ------ About the song Tattooed Lady performed by Kingston Trio

    "'I've never,' he declared, 'seen such a freak so bare.'"
    "... on her jaw was the Royal Flying Caul" (part of the placenta - you'll have to Google that)

    "..and all up and down her spine, stood the Royal guard in line...

    "and my home in Waikiki"

    I've been singing this to my kids for a long, long time (I'm 63)


    The start of it all | Reviewer: George Hoyt
        ------ About the song Tom Dooley performed by Kingston Trio

    This song, more than any other, began the folk music revival of the late 50's, early 60's. Folk music had been on hiatus since the music of Pete Seeger and The Weavers was abruptly cut short by the blacklisting of the performers due to their enrollment in the Communist Party.

    (As an aside, I loved the song, "Good Night Irene", one of the last performed by the Weavers and, by far, their most popular release.)

    So, along come Dave, John and Nick three guys that attended different schools together in Menlo Park-Palo Alto, California. As I recall, Dave Guard attended Menlo School and College and John and Nick were enrolled at Stanford.

    They met at a beer joint on the El Camino in Menlo Park and the rest was history.

    I met these three guys in the formative stage of the development of the Trio and liked them from the start. For general information, Dave Guard was the only one of the three that could read music. Found this interesting.


    The way I heard it | Reviewer: Ted Rapal us
        ------ About the song Tattooed Lady performed by Kingston Trio

    My son's group patterned after the Kingston Trio used to sing this song frequently. The part after Uncle Ned was "he came to guide us there".
    Also about the spine line was"all up and down her spine, the Queen's own gardens twined" All else is same.


    Timeless tear jerker | Reviewer: Johnny Fondlebottom
        ------ About the song Early Morning Rain performed by Kingston Trio

    This 1963 composition by Canadian folkie Gordon Lightfoot ("Sundown", "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald")has been covered countless times since because it never fails to find a consistent resonance with contemporary audiences of all ages.
    Bullet pointing the age old theme of separation anxiety, Lightfoot doesn't break new emotional ground, but rather modifies the dialactics by replacing the trading posts and railway depots that served as parting points of songs past with the more modern amemnity of the airport. This is a masterstroke, for it not only serves to update the theme for which a modern audience to better relate, it contributes an entirely new dimension to work with. In addition to the set of "here" and "there", Lightfoot's innovation gives us the dilactics of "up" and "down", which in this case are emblematic of social hierachicial status as well.
    This reading from The Kingston Trio's 1965 release "Stay Awhile" is doleful enough, although lacking the stark, almost unbearable pathos of Peter Paul and Mary's version of that same year. The latter rendition flows like tears in an unbroken two-four pattern, while by contrast the Trio imparts to the song a mild trace of a country bounce, a sort of relief from PP&M's unmitigated melancholia. But the fact remains; a great song is always a great song.


    Jane, Jane, Jane | Reviewer: "seanchai"
        ------ About the song Jane, Jane, Jane performed by Kingston Trio

    I beg to differ with the fellow above. I have one of the original LP's of the KT singing Jane, Jane, Jane.

    The last line is, "I couldn't love her more if I could see."

    [There is another song out there - I have it by The Alexander Brothers - about a wistful blind male. Look up the lyrics to "Nobody's Child."].


    thank you | Reviewer: susan
        ------ About the song Turn Around performed by Kingston Trio

    Yours was the only submission for this song that looks right to me. Might there be any verses for a boy? I'll keep looking. But these are as I remember them. Susan


    Rev. Mr. Black used the Word.. "Jesus....." | Reviewer: David McKellip
        ------ About the song Reverend Mr. Black performed by Kingston Trio

    Chorus 1: Rev. Mr. Black was a preacher... He knew the story of Jesus......

    "Jesus walked that lonesome valley. He had to walk it by Himself. Oh nobody else can walk it for Him. He had to walk it by himself."

    2. Chorus: The point was the lumberjack needed to know He like Jesus would some day come to terms with his life....so "YOU" You have to walk.....
    You got to walk that lonesome valley. You got to walk it by yourself. Oh nobody else can walk it for you. You got to walk it by yourself.

    3. Chorus: One day we all will have to walk it.....even me... I got to walk......
    I gotta walk that lonesome valley. I got to walk it by myself. Oh nobody else can walk it for me. I got to walk it by myself.


    The line...
    It's been many years since we had a pard.
    should read:
    It's been many years since we had a part.


    "Jane, Jane, Jane" by Kingston Trio | Reviewer: Pastor Bob Browne
        ------ About the song Jane, Jane, Jane performed by Kingston Trio

    Last line of, of last verse, and last line of chorus after last verse
    "But I couldn't love her more if I could 'SPEAK'"


    Dancing through the Wind and Fire | Reviewer: Marj
        ------ About the song The Merry Minuet performed by Kingston Trio

    The Merry Minuet's message is right on. I'm surprised it's rarely played. It's the first great song I heard with this message. Then came Peter, Paul & Mary's "Blowing in the Wind" and more recently, Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire". Not much has changed.

    "The Merry Minuet"'s humor and catchy tune should have made it the most popular in my view.


    selfishness | Reviewer: John Lamont
        ------ About the song Less of Me performed by Kingston Trio

    My friend, Larry Bennett, used to sing this song and it always touched me. The Kingston trio had many touching songs.

    How often are our selfish actions the cause of many of the problems of today's society. President Spencer W. Kimball said, "the cause of divorce is selfishness." The lawyers have many causes they can list for the dissolution of marriage but all of them can be traced to selfishness.

    I love this song. I try to sing it especially as I'm driving and someone is thinking only of themselves as they drive.


    strings and chorus | Reviewer: ojie stephens
        ------ About the song Pullin' Away performed by Kingston Trio

    I'm trying to find the version of Pulling Away by the Kingston Trio with John Stewart that featured a chorus and strings. It was a hauntingly beautiful arrangement. How can I find that?
    Thank you, Ojie Stephens


    500 miles | Reviewer: Laura Marie
        ------ About the song 500 Miles performed by Kingston Trio

    I am in love with this song.Just as I am other songs sung the trio.How could you not be captivated?!!


    A little known gem. | Reviewer: Anonymous
        ------ About the song Three Song performed by Kingston Trio

    Beautiful music and lyrics by Mason Williams. A cleverly crafted, sweetly sentimental melody that seems never to have received the appreciation it deserves. The last time I heard this tune was over 30 years ago, performed by the Smothers Brothers.


    My Father and the River | Reviewer: Harinder Kaur
        ------ About the song The Seine performed by Kingston Trio

    Although he was born and raised in Punjab, my Dad was a lifelong Francophile. When he left India, he headed directly for France. He couldn't stay there, so he became a world traveler.

    Eventually, he ended up living most of his life in Quebec as a Sikh Canadian, but his heart was always in Paris.

    When he died, my seven brothers and I decided to take his ashes and throw them into the Seine. We had to do this on the sly - no easy task for people who were as conspicuous as we were, seven tall turbanned men and one short youngish woman. But we are a group not easily deterred and we managed, very late at night, not far from Notre Dame to throw the weighted wooden box containing his ashes, his kara and what was left of his kirpan into the Seine. As we did so, maybe we should have been singing kirtan, but instead, we sang this song, one of his favourites.


    Hopelessly dated | Reviewer: Dave
        ------ About the song Take Her Out of Pity performed by Kingston Trio

    This song has troubled me ever since I first heard it decades ago. It has a wonderful melody, but the lyrics are so chauvinistic that I wonder if the surviving members of the group aren't at least a little embarrassed about it.



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