Music · 03/05/2018

Old Joe Clark is a US folk song, a mountain ballad that was popular among soldiers from eastern Kentucky during World War I and afterwards. Its lyrics refer to a real person named Joseph Clark, a Kentucky mountaineer who was born in 1839 and murdered in 1885.The "playful and sometimes outlandish verses" have led to the conjecture that it first spread as a children's song and via play parties.There are about 90 stanzas in various versions of the song.The tune is in the Mixolydian mode Old Joe Cla