Cindy, I'll Marry You One Day

Album: Band of Joy (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • This version of the much-sung and revised traditional ballad, aka "Cindy," or "Get Along Home Cindy" was arranged by Plant and Buddy Miller. Their interpretation owes its inspiration to a renowned Appalachian banjo minstrel, Bascom Lamar Lunsford.

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  • Bird from KansasWasn't this song sang by Ricky Nelson in the 1959 movie Rio Bravo?
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