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This is a fairytale song where a banjo hangs alone in a cabin when a robin comes along and falls in love with it.

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There hung a banjo
alone on a wall
hung there for years
making no sound at all
till along came a Robin
in the window to sing
and oh how that banjo did ring

She sang, “I’ve been flying
through a nearby wood
where the air is clear
and the water is good,
the pines so sturdy
and their needles so green
and oh how that banjo did ring

He said, “I once travelled
with a lonesome hobo,
I rode the steel rails
and I joined that hobo
in many wild tales.
Now that old hobo
is naught but a dream.”
and oh how that banjo did ring

One day the old house
with the banjo fell down
and the Robin cried
when she heard the sound.
She sang a tune
sad and true
of a hobo and a banjo
and the rambles they knew
and in the rubble
she heard the strings
and oh how that banjo did ring

She plucked the strings
and the ebony pegs
she took the bridge
and the broken head
all to her nest
where together they sing
and oh how that banjo did ring

© Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp

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from Live in LA with the Big Picnic Band, track released May 1, 2015
© Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp

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Jeni Hankins London, UK

Jeni Hankins grew up in the coalfields of Appalachian in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners, and journalists. Her writing pulls the grit, gumption, and keen sense of observation out of that heritage like drawing water from her grandmother’s well.

In every song, Jeni’s “true sense of place shines through – old as the hills, but brand new at the same time.”
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