I'm Just A Country Boy

Words and Music by :  Fred Brooks and Marshall Barer

Recording #1 by Harry Belafonte
Recording date: Jan 4, 1954 (14:00-18:00)
Master number: E4VB 2806-C (E4VW-2806)
Playing time: 3:03
Producer: Joe Carlton
Hugo Winterhalter: leader; H. Ross: contractor; Millard Thomas: guitar; Arnold Fishkin: bass; Nathan Foodman: drums; William Rodriguez: drums; Buster Davis: piano, Thomas Parshley: flute: Edwin Brown: oboe; Clifford Heather: trombone; Lou McGarity: trombone; Donald Lipsey: trumpet; R. D. McMickle: trumpet; Charles Margulis: trumpet; Maurice Bialkin: cello; Martin Lake: cello; Sidney Brecher: viola; John DiJanni: viola; Felix Buldrini: violin; Harry Glickman: violin; Jasha Herzog: violin; Harry Melnikoff: violin; Felix Orlewitz: violin; Julius Schacter: violin; Ray Charles, Jack Brown, Murray Kane, Mel Larned, Edwin Lindstroem, Earl Rogers and Alan Sokoloff: vocal chorus.

78 : 20-5617, 420-0322,
45 : 47-5617, 447-0322, 47-9406, SDL003,
LP : PL43683, DLP1147, LPM-1505 (Argentina)
CD: BCD16262, 07863-67403-2, 07863-68097-2, 82876-59069-2, GSS-5381, 82876-69242-2, 8.120799,


Recording #2 by Harry Belafonte
Recording date: Feb 17, 1966
Playing time: 3:43
45 : 86-527M, 10273, SP45-155
LP : LSP3571,
Tape: TP3-5002
CD: 07863-58555-2,


Also recorded by
The Brothers Four CS9013

Roger Whittaker Philips 6369-214  

Lyrics:

I ain't gonna marry in the fall
I ain't gonna marry in the spring
For I'm in love with a pretty little girl
Who wears a diamond ring,
And I'm just a country boy,
Money have I none
But I've got silver in the stars
And gold in the morning sun,
And gold in the morning sun

I'm never gonna kiss the ruby lips of the prettiest girl in town
I'm never gonna ask her if she'd marry me
For I know she'd turn me down
'Cause I'm just a country boy,
Money have I none
But I've got silver in the stars
And gold in the morning sun,
And gold in the morning sun

I never could afford a store bought ring
With a sparkling diamond stone
All I could afford was a loving heart
The only one I own
I'm just a country boy,
Money have I none
But I've got silver in the stars
And gold in the morning sun,
And gold in the morning sun