DARCY FARROW
(Steve Gillette / Tom Campbell)

Ian & Sylvia - 1965
George Hamilton IV - 1967
Steve Gillette - 1967
John Denver - 1972

Also recorded by: Anne Byrne; Nanci Griffith; 
Linda Ronstadt; Dicky Lee; Jimmy Dale Gilmore; 
Chesapeake; The Kingston Trio; Susan Hamlin; 
Country Gentlemen; Matthews' Southern Comfort; 
Tom Rowe; Tom Russell; The Sunshine Company; 
Bill & Bonnie Hearne; Townes Van Zandt...and others.




Where the Walker runs down to the Carson Valley plane
There lived a maiden, Darcy Farrow was her name
The daughter of old Dundee and a fair one was she
The sweetest flower that bloomed o'er the plain

Her voice was sweet as the sugar candy
Her touch was soft as a bed of goosedown
Her eyes shone bright like the pretty lights
That shine in the night out of Yerrington Town

She was courted by young Vandermere
And quite handsome was he, as I hear
He bought her silverrings and other lacy things
And she promised to wed before the snows fell that year

But her pony did stumble and she did fall
Her dying touched the hearts of us one and all
Young Vandy in his pain put a bullet through his brain
And they buried them together as the snow began to fall

They sing of Darcy Farrow where the Truckee runs through
They sing of her beauty in Virginia City too
At dusky sundown to her name they drink a round
And to young Vandy whose love was true






(Contributed by  - December 2009)