Song 19 in Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors · Song 27 in Ukulele for Beginners
Down in the Valley
Also known as: Hang Your Head Over
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Piano
For Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors.
Slow (70% speed) (0:34)
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Normal speed (0:24)
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Play-along (0:24)
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Ukulele
For Ukulele for Beginners.
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Normal speed (0:24)
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Play-along (0:24)
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All the words
Down in the valley, the valley so low,
Hang your head over, hear the winds blow.
Hear the winds blow, dear, hear the winds blow,
Hang your head over, hear the winds blow.If you don’t love me, love whom you please,
Throw your arms round me, give my heart ease.
Give my heart ease, dear, give my heart ease.
Throw your arms round me, give my heart ease.Throw your arms round me, before it’s too late,
Throw your arms round me, feel my heart break.
Feel my heart break, dear, feel my heart break,
Throw your arms round me, feel my heart break.Writing this letter containing three lines,
Answer my question, “Will you be mine?”
Will you be mine, dear, will you be mine?
Answer my question, will you be mine?Build me a castle, forty feet high,
So I can see him, as he goes by.
As he goes by, dear, as he goes by,
So I can see him, as he goes by.Roses love sunshine, violets love dew,
Angels in heaven, knows I love you.
Knows I love you, dear, knows I love you,
Angels in heaven, know I love you.
About this song
- Music
- Traditional (American, Kentucky and Ozark mountains)
- Words
- Traditional
- First published
- Collected in Missouri by H. M. Belden c. 1909–10; printed by Carl Sandburg, The American Songbag (1927), and Bradley Kincaid's Favorite Old-Time Songs and Mountain Ballads, Book 2 (1929)
- Copyright
- Public domain in the US, UK and EU. The arrangement and recordings belong to the book.